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OFFICIAL HANDBOOK SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 




Panama-California International Exposition Edition 




For nearly a decade the house of A. Greene & Son, Inc., has 
been well and f.ivorably known in Los Ang-eles and all over South- 
ern California as pioneer and leader in the production of high-class, 
made-to-measure. Ladies' Suits at moderate prices. 

It has ever been our aim to see. not how cheaply a suit can 
be made without regard to quality, not how great a profit can 
be secured, but how to GIVE THE GREATEST POSSIBLE 
VALUE AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICE. 

That this policy has been very successful, a list of hundreds 
of regular patrons, including some of the most careful dressers in 
the Southland, is sufficient evidence. 

Our beautiful rn-w store, with its light, airy and sanitary 
workshop, oin* large force of expert operatives in every department, 
and careful attention to every detail enal)les us to give that prompt 
and efficient service which is one of the greatest essentials in the 
giving of perfect satisfaction. 

Our Mr. A. Greene personally supervises every detail of all 
orders. 

Our San Diego branch, which has been established several 
years, is in charge of our Mr. Charles Greene, insuring the same 
service as in the Los Angeles store. 

A complete line of seasonable woolens in standard and exclu- 
sive weaves and patterns always in stock. 



A. GREENE & SON 

Exclusive Ladies' Tailors 
745 South Broadway, Los Angeles 



STANDARD GUIDE 

TO LOS ANGELES, SAN DIEGO 
AND THE PANAMA- 
CALIFORNIA EXPOSITION 



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ONTAINS an accurate description of all points of interest. 
Gives the history, progress and development of Los Angeles 
and vicinity including the Exposition at San Diego. 




1916 

Locates and describes all places of general importance such as 
parks, churches, theatres, banks, hotels, public buildings, retail and 
wholesale shopping districts, cafes, amusement places, etc. Each 
topic treated in strict alphabetical order. Includes Notable Hotels 
of Southern California and Special Pleasure Trips for the Tourist. 

FULLY ILLUSTRATED 

Copyright 1916 by the Official Publishing Co., Los Angeles j^jj Rights Reserved 



Co m p i I e a ana P u h I i s li c d h v t li e 

OFFICIAL PUBLISHING CO. 

BUILDING OJ LOo ArSlCjiLLvli/S CALIFORNIA 



Visit Los Angeles' Leading 
Jewelry House 




Every city has its chief jew- 
elry establishment. In Los 
Angeles, that house is S, 
Nordlinger & Sons — continu- 
ously in business since 1869, 
when Los Angeles was a mere 
''pueblo." 

You who are used to the important 
jewelry shops of the larger eastern 
cities will appreciate the strictly 
metropolitan character of our offer- 
ings — in diamonds, gold jewelry, 
silverware, watches and stationery. 
Our large department of European 
art goods is the only one of its 
kind in the Southwest. 

Whether your needs be limited or 
extensive, whether you seek some 
simple things of modest price, or 
the more ornate costly creations — 
there is nothing which offers a 
surer proof of dependable quality 
and lasting satisfaction, than the 
well known name of Nordlinger. 

Visitors are always welcome. 



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631 "T 63 3 SOUTH 




LOOKING EAST ALONG EL PKADO 



Panama-California International Exposition 

SAN DIEGO, 1916 

Description Prepared by the Department of Exploitation and Publicity 



America's plavgTouiid is this y^ai' estab- 
lished in Southern California with its caj^i- 
tal at San Diego, where the Panama-Cali- 
fornia International Exposition is being- 
held after a year's successful operation of 
the Panama-California Exposition. En- 
couraged by the success attending' the 
1915 exposition, plans for the 1916 inter- 
national fair were made before the one of 
1915 passed out of existence, and thus 
San Diego, as no other city in the world 
had ever done, boasts of a two-year expo- 
sition. This is a record achievement for 
a municipality and contributes a new era 
ill exposition history. 

Now in all of its glory and si)leiidor, the 
Panama-California International Exposi- 
tion is a going concern, pulsating with life 
and teeming with attractions. Augmented 
l)y the j^rincipal foreign exhibits from the 
Panama-Pacific International Exposition at 
San Eraiicisco, which was closed Decem- 
ber 4, 1915, the display at San Diego in- 
vites world attention. 

The man at the head of this project, 
(t. a. Davidson, who piloted the Exposi- 
ticni through a year's satisfactory opera- 
tion, sees in this year the climax of ex- 



position endeavor. ''Make the Exposition 
contribute a higher type of internation- 
alism" is President Davidson's slogan. 

In the transportation of visitors to the 
Exposition the railroads must now reckon 
with a formidable rival. This is the auto- 
mobile, and the popularity and feasibility 
of transcontinental touring to the Exjiosi- 
tion is evidenced each day in the arrival 
of cars from many States east of the 
Mississippi. A striking example of the 
automobile's importance in the transpor- 
tation of Exposition visitors is seen daily 
in Southern California, where magnifieent 
concrete highways bear the tread of mo- 
tor's wheels. Situated only 140 miles 
from Los Angeles, the drive to the Exposi- 
tion over the State Highway of concrete 
is one of pleasure. Skirting the azure 
blue of the Pacific, which rolls its waters 
up in ]ilay on sandy beaches, this highway 
follows the coast line for much of its 
route, taps a fertile country and unfolds 
scenic wonders to the motorist. 

(lenerously have the nations of the 
world contributed their best that their re- 
sources and possibilities may be absorbed 
by the Exposition visitor, and equally as 




PATIO— SCIENCE AND EDUCATION BUILDING 

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LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEdO STANDARD CIUIDE 




G. A. DAVIDSON 

President of the Exposition 

<>'enerous is the Exposition 's housing' of the 
foreign dis^Dlays, dechired by critics to be 
the best and most representative ever 



Mssembled lor a showing to a cosmopolitan 
pcrsonneL The riches of the world have 
l)een dumped into a beauty-spot where na- 
Inre's handicraft has been indelibly 
stamped with the skill of man. It is like 
the assembling of a Sheba's jewels in 
palaces ornate, not for gaudy exterior 
decoration but for sheer architectural 
l)eauty and correctness. 

Throwing- open its gates January 1, 
1916, the Panama-California International 
Exposition began a year's operation under 
the most auspicious circumstances. From 
the four quarters of the globe came mes- 
sages of encouragement and congratula- 
tions, punctuated with well wishes for the 
success of the venture. And while a great 
crowd passed through the gates and at- 
tended the opening ceremonies, commercial 




Patriotic Demonstration of School Children 




SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNTIES BUILDING 
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T.OS ANOELES-RAN DTEOO STANDARD GUTDE 




L()OKIN<; ACROSS THE FORMAL GARDEN OF THE SOUTHERN CALIFOUXIA COrxriES 

BUILDING 




One of tile F.xpositioii PaLaces 



America .uaped at San Diego's boldness in 
making' history with two years of Exposi- 
tion. 

Snpported by a financial and moral loy- 
alty characteristic of Sonthern California, 
endowed with nature's blessing's and a 
climate which makes for successful out- 
door display every month of the year, ex- 
ploited by the cosmopolite for its ever- 
present tonic for jaded nerves and seized 
by the student as the vehicle of higher 
education of the masses, the Exposition is 
Inlaying' a prominent part in the world of 
big- enterprises. No exposition in the past 
has been like it. Tt is different from the 
(inc wliich closed in December, 1915, at 
San Francisco. It contains the best of 
this one's featnres and becoming heir to 
the Panama-California Exposition it seized 
the cream of its attractions and set the 
whole in an atmosphere of artistic attain- 
ments which balk the pen of the most 
facile writer and halt the brush of a mas- 
ter painter. 

Arrangements which make for continuity 
of sightseeing without inconvenience are 



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LAkGK.ST ()L:TI)()(JR OUliAN I\ THE WORLD 0\ WHICH DAILY KKtTTALS ARE C.I\ I'.X 



notioed. The mammoth t'oreig'ii displays 
are shown iu the exhibition palaces along 
El Prado. Occnpying an entire bnilding- 
is Canada's exhibit. Long would the 
traveler search the universe to tind a 
more comprehensive exhibit of a country's 
resources. Canada is not an infant iu 
the exhibition game, and there is an in- 
dividuality about this display which marks 
it for instant and lasting attention. 
Canada, a country where government- 
owned enterprises have succeeded, exhibits 
at this P]xposition under government pat- 
ronage and direction. The Canadian ex- 
hibit is made by the government with a 
permanent Exposition Commission in 
charge, of which Colonel William Hutchin- 
son is the head. Well has Canada drawn 
on its fertile provinces for material, and 
lil)erally has its great railroads contrib- 
uted. It is a picture of thrift, prosperity 
and progress, presented to the Exposition 
visitor in a manner which is as impressive 



to the mind as it is pleasing to the eye. 
In one panel the visitor will see the re- 
})roduction of an orchard — the next may 
show the heyday of harvest time, with fields 




From One of the Restful Balconies 




ORNATE ENTRANXE TO FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC ARTS BUILDING 



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I.OS AX'(!KLK8-SAN DIKdO STAX'DAin) ClIDK 



l)ii\vlii.i>' heavy with n'oldoii iiraiii. A^aiii 
it is Indiistrv's wheel whieli I'uniishes llie 
|iieture, and thus Iheic is presented in a 
kaleidoseopic inaniier the best disphiy any 
(•(punlrv e\t'i' nia(h' at any e.\|)()sit ion. 

Thouiih it \\<inhl seem at lirst tiiouiihl 
tluit ("unaihi 's niaininolh disphiy would 
overshadow otiiers to sneh an extent that 
they niiiiht a|)peai- inedioere, yet this is not 
the ease. Takinii rank with Canada's el'- 
I'ort is that made by France, and its Ih'ur 
(U' lis is beiiiu' carried onward to further 
acclaim. Here in the French exhibit is 
where mere man. to some extent, seems out 
of place, for a greater part is given over 
to the display of Parisian gowns, represent- 
ing the highest type of the designer's skill 





Tower of Science and Education linildina 



San Ju.-Kiuin X'allcy P>uilding 



and art. Petite France has indeed made 
the most of its reputation for artistic edu- 
cation, and not the least important part 
is the art display, valued at thousands of 
dollars. 

On down the list of foreign participation, 
creditable and attractive displays are made 
by other governments. The Italian, Span- 
ish, Netherlands and Russian, as well as 
the Swiss and Chinese, are the largest the 
respective countries have made at any ex- 
position. From the four quarters of the 
compass there is an array of exhibit ma- 
terial that gives the visitor a travel educa- 
tion that is not compassed by miles of 
journey. 

Though the Exposition is International 
in theme and consequently in name, the 
United States contributes its part, and its 
l)art takes i-ank with that shown by other 
nations. America's manufacturing is com- 
ing into its own at the Exposition. Here 
the visitor sees a panorama of making 
rather than a pietui-e of linished product. 
The Exposition is an exposition of 
processes. Today you see the seed 
planted — tomorrow comes the plant's pro- 
pagation and care, while succeeding days 
record it in full bloom. Then the process 
is repeated again and again that there may 
be an ever-present program of diversity for 
patrons. 

Foreign representation is of such large 
proportions that even an able linguist 
would be halted in conversing in the na- 
tive tongue with the foreign attendants 
at the Exposition. Nothing short of Es- 
peranto will do. (^ueer types indeed are 
these foreigners to our impetuous and 
business-going Americans. Here the vi.sitor 
sees the Turk regaled in fez and colorful 
costume. He passes a native Hawaiian 
belle whose charms are displayed as nature 
intended and where little is left to the 
imagination. Then he sees a type from 



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LOS ANGELES-SAN DTKOO STANDARD GUIDE 




A ('ilini|)se of Hawaii at the Exposition 

Piccadilly, and again the languid spirit of 
Spain is reiiected, for now tunefnl notes of 
a mandolin and guitar accompany pretty 
senoritas as they sing ''La Paloma" fi'om 
a balcony, or display terpsichorean effort 
in the expansive plazas. Then there is 
sunny Italy, and well do its representa- 
tives fit into the picture. Thus there is 



contributed in a few days' visit to the 
Expo.sition a knowledge of foreign climes 
which the average American had never 
hoped to acquire. 

The great Southwest, where salubrity 
of climate and fertility of soil make a ten- 
acre tract, under intensive farming, seem 
like a king's estate, is set down at the 
Exposition in clever arrangement. Domi- 
nating the southern end of the grounds, 
each displaying individuality in architec- 
ture, are the State buildings. It is in these 
that the homeseeker learns what the South- 
west has to offer for the settler. He learns 
the price of land, the State's resources, its 
ti'ansportation facilities and thousands of 
other items of data which he had never 
dreamed had been compiled for his bene- 
fit. Such a plan as that in vogue at the 
State buildings in interesting the home- 
seeker is followed at the headquarters of 
the various California counties. Some 
counties have contributed to the common 




P.\NORAMA SHOWING BUILDINGS ALONG EL PRADO, 

THOROUGH EARE 



THE EXPOSITION'S MAIN 



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(•;iiis(' III' (lispliiv ill lioiisiiiL;' llicir ('.\liil)its in 
a scclidiial l)iiil(lin.i;', wliilc ollici's, pret'crinj;' 
a strict iiidividiialily, are ('xliil)ilin,<;- singly. 
Trobably no better denionsti'ation of Soutli- 
cni California's great productiveness was 
ever seen than that going on constantly 
at the model farm, maintained by the 
Sdul licni California counties. Here on a 
mere pittance of land the visitor is shown 
Sdiiilicni California's productiveness when 
inodcni methods of intensive fai'ming are 
aiiplicd. This small faiiii. or ranch as 
Californians are wi)nl to term it, yields 
a continuous crop and profit. This month's 
I'eturns are I'olling in from the oranges 
and lemons. Last month it was the straw- 
berries and early gardening which gave 
the profit, while next will yield a gain 
from other vai'ieties of fruit, berries and 
vegetables; and while these are being 
raised and marketed, water's magic touch 
sends alfalfa shooting up for several crops 
a year. But revenue from farming in 
Southern California does not stop here, 
so the model farm shows, for no month in 
the _year confines the activity of chickens 
and turkeys. Visitors at the Exposition 
marvel at the arrangement of this farm, 
and it gives a better knowledge of South- 
ern California's possibilities for the home- 
seeker than would be given by thousands 
of square feet devoted to a display of 
prize-winning pumpkins, as was the ex- 
hibit theme in expositions of yester yeai's. 




Si)anisli TrdubadDurs 

The Ivxposilidii's chai'iii is by no means 
confined to international connnercial dis- 
play, for the aits have a ])rominent part. 
Here music oi' professional character en- 
tertains tlu' visitor daily. Aside from the 
several concerts given by military and 
other famous Ijands, the daily organ re- 
cital is an e\(M'-i)opular entertainment. 
This recital is played on the largest out- 
door organ in the world — the gift to the 
city of San Diego by A. B. and John I). 
Spreckels. With its building- it represents 
an investment df ."i^lOO.OOO and stands as 
a monument to the liberality and public- 
si)iritedness of its doiKns. Like the mam- 




ho.mp: economy and foreic.n arts huilding on the plaza de Panama 



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LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE 



niotli industrial exhibits are a display (»i;' 
business acumen, the organ exercises a 
patronizing influence in the advancement 
of music. Throughout the year great 
choruses will be heard, and world-famed 
ai-tists will sing at frequent intervals. 

An exposition is a strange institution in 
l)rogram. It must be the home of diver- 
sity, for the effete Easterner might not 
care for agricultural display, or the open- 
handed Westerner might disdain priceless 
art treasures. An exposition must be for 
the masses, and when the gates were 
thrown open January 1, such was the 
arrangement. Some would care, it was 
known, for inquisitive study of man 's 
ancestry, as furnished through the display 
pertaining to prehistoric man. Yet others 
would scorn such a highly intellectual 
pilgrimage and seek entertainment in sur- 
roundings where King Joy rules with un- 
disputed sway. It was on account of con- 
sideration given to this subject that a Joy 
Street was provided. On this thorough- 
fare, extending practically from Ei Prado 
to the North Gate, carnival and gaiety set 
the stage for the presentation of amuse- 
ment features called from the catalogue 
of the most amazing and up-to-date. Yet 
with the cloak of laughter and mirth on 
them, many of these attractions contribute 
education Avith their amusement. Though 
the nature of these are at great variance, 
it is seen that the selection has been a 
cai-eful one, that the limit of wholesome 
enjoyment could be derived without a dis- 
gusting taint or immodest display. 

The decision to build the Exposition in 
the fourteen-hundred-acre Balboa Park 
owned by the city was a popular one, and 
in its building those considered the best 
landscape and building architects were en- 
gaged. These have carried to successful 
completion the beautification of the 
grounds, construction of the buildings and 
arrangement, which as a whole has been 
lauded as a fine example of engineering 
skill. It is the architecture of the build- 
ings which strikes the keynote of har- 
mony, for mission predominates in Cali- 
fornia. Back to the days of the good 
Franciscan fathers the architects went for 
their types, and faithfully have they por- 
trayed an architecture which has attained 
popularity in recent years. Throughout 
the different types it is seen that the 
Spanish Colonial predominates. Each 
building has a style representative of mas- 
terful effort. One resembles the Hacienda 
at Conde d'Heras, another gives many sug- 



gestions of the Sanctuario de Guadalupe 
at Guadalajara. In others are found points 
I'esembling the cathedral at Pueblo, Mexico, 
and in another are resemblances to the 
eighteenth century monastery at Queretaro, 
Mexico. The California State Building 
bears many resemblances to the beautiful 
cathedral at Oaxaea, Mexico. Throughout 
tiie grounds the building shows an artistic 
arrangement such as only could come from 
the hands of a master. It is such a project 
as Father Serra must have dreamed of years 
ago when he laid the foundation of Cali- 
fornia 's civilization. 

Crossing the Puente Cabrillo the visitor 
approaches a massive arch flanked on one 
side by a rich cathedral and on the other 
by a plain mission. Once inside this gate- 
way the visitor looks down El Prado, the 
main street of the Exposition, on one of 
the most beautiful views ever seen. Lining 
the Prado are scores of black acacia 
trees, beyond which stands the wonderful 
Spanish Colonial buildings of the Exposi- 
tion. Over the buildings clambers a riot 




The California State Building 



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(if vines, till" ricli green of Iho loaves giv- 
iiiu' wny here and there to bright flashes 
nf ('oh)r fi'om blossoms. 

Scxcral of the buildiuos are large, l)ut 
except for the great dome and tower of 
one. few are tall. Instead, they spread 
luxuriously along the j^lazas, on the mesa 
which looks down on the sea and the 
sti'aiid of Coronado, or back up the fertile 
\ alleys to the Sierras, with long, cool 
cloisters and arcades lining their facades. 
Instead of baking streets there are prados 
Ixirdered with acacias and lawns and thick 
beds of gladiolus or ]ioinsettias, and low 
shrubbery which droops through the arches 
of the arcades. Up the walls — up to the 
Spanish domes and towei's and belfries 
where pigeons nest and mission bells 



swing — clambers the gorgeous growth of 
rose, honeysuckle and boganvillea — the 
superb vine whose bloom does much to 
make a fairyland of Southern California. 
A portal invites one past the cloisters and 
beyond there lies a quiet patio — green 
with foliage, illuminated by the color of 
an occasional flowering shrub, murmuring 
with the soft sound of a fountain. 

This is a picture of the Panama-Cali- 
fornia International Exposition at San 
Diego — an Exposition set in a diadem of 
artistic simplicity — an Exposition which is 
giving to th(^ world a liberal education — 
an enterprise taking leading rank in the 
movement to ''See America First"— a 
jiroject which causes visitors to muse, 
"They can do it in America." 




PAT.ACF. I.TRERAI, ARTS, PAX \>[ ACALl FoRXI A I\ TKRX ATIOX A I. F.X P( )SITir)X 



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A Personal Invitation to 
the Visitor in Los Angeles 



vve nave anticipated your every require- 
ment and extend an invitation to inspect 
at your leisure our many aepartments 



NA/edding 

invitations 

announcements 

ana personal 

cards 

engraved 

in tne snortest 

possible time 



STATIONERY-ENGRAVING 

This department is prepared to design and 
execute many unique and original creations 
whether it be for general or personal use. 

ART GOODS 

We are showing the most attractive line of 
art ware in Los Angeles today among which 
will be found many beautiful leather articles 
and exclusive potteries. 




Los Angeles 



an unusual 
exclusive house 
devoting every 
etrort to tne 
creation and 
retailing or 
Tine stationery 
engraving and 
art goods 



CAMERAS AND 
PHOTO SUPPLIES 

Perpetuate your visit to Southern California 
by the aid of a camera. We carry a full 
stock of photo supplies and make enlarge- 
ments from all size prints. 

PICTURE FRAMING 

A framed picture from Little's with its har- 
monizing tones and perfect workmanship adds 
much to the original. Great care is given to 
the framing of even the least expensive 
prints. We are equipped to execute special 
designs to order. 



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los angeles 



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LOS ANGELES 

'^hat which she has not 
and wills not is not 



Year by yeai' tourists flock to Los 
Angeles in greater nnmbers, year by year 
her permanent population increases by 
leaps and bounds, both classes called hither 
by her incomparable climate, her delightful 
situation, between the mountains and the 
sea, her interesting surroundings, the facili- 
ties she affords for amusement and recre- 
ation and by her abundant evidences of 
material prosperity. In all these particu- 
lars Los Angeles is pre-eminent, but there 
is still more of which she has a right to be 
proud — doubly proud because they are 
among the things best worth while, and 
because it is through her own efforts that 
she has attained them ; her climate and 
situation she was born with. Her play- 
ground system is among the best in the 
United States; her public schools are ex- 
ceptionally fine; her people have been 
taught the skilful use of books, so that in 
circulation and reference use her public 
library ranks very high ; and in an age 
when church-going is notably falling off 
and in a country where all ont-doors is 
calling insistently every Sunday in the 
year, her largest churches are crowded to 
the doors at every service. These things 
mean that Los Angeles is far more than 
just a materially prosperous city, and that 
Avith all the allurements of Southern Cali- 
fornia at her doors, she takes time for the 
higher things of life. 

One morning in September, 1781, Gov- 
ernor Felipe de Neve, with a band of 
priests and Indian neophytes and eleven 
settlers with their families who were to 
become the pablodores of the new town, 



set out from San Gabriel Mission to estab 
lish the Pueblo Nuestra Senora, la ReinE 
de Los Angeles. Arriving at the spot 
selected, a cross was set up, the priestf 
and neophytes chanted, the banner of Oui 
Lady was unfurled by the side of the flag 
of Spain, and the site was named for 
Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels. Lots 
were laid out on three sides of a plaza 
(one side being reserved for a church and 
other public buildings), lands for cultiva- 
tion called suertes, were set apart, an irri- 
gation ditch from the river, then called 
''Poi'ciuncula," was planned, and each 
soldier was given two oxen, two mules, two 
mares, two sheep, two goats, two cows, one 
calf, an ass and one hoe. With their 
families the settlers numbered fort,y-six, 
only two of pure Spanish blood, the rest 
Indian and mulatto. Their houses when 
built were rude adobe structures with flat 
roofs made of reeds covered with as- 
phaltum. 

Their fields were productive with little 
cultivation and what was lacking the 
fertile fields of San Gabriel Mission could 
supply, so for many years the settlers led 
a dolce far niente life. It was said of 
them and of the town, "The people are a 
set of idlers," "the town, founded twenty 
years ago, has made no advancement." 
"confident that the Gentiles (Indians) are 
working, they pass their days in singing," 
yet the little town grew. In 1800 the 
population was 315, in 1835 it was made a 
city by the Mexican Government and de- 
clared the capital, but the selection was 
not enforced. Bickerings among Mexica' 



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loaders followed for several years, but be- 
tween 1845 and 1847 it was the actual 
capital. When the Mexican war broke out 
the eity was torn by factional quarrels, 
but both Mexican factions united to oppose 
the American ti'oops under Commodore 
Stockton and General Fremont. Battles 
were fought in the vicinity with results 
favoring' the Americans, and in January, 
1847, Generals Andres Pico and John C. 
Fremont signed articles of peace at Cahu- 
enga. Los Angeles then became an Ameri- 
can city, though in 1846 the American flag 
had been raised by Captain Gillespie. The 
population at that time was 1,250. The 
city received a charter in 1850. In 1860 
the population was 4,300. Of these only 
five hundred were Americans. Los Angeles 
grew slowly for a time, but from 1876, 
when it became connected by the Southern 
Pacific railroad with San Francisco and 
the overland line, its growth was faster, 
and even more rapid after 1885 when con- 
nections were made Avith the East by the 
Santa Fe system. The period following 
culminated in a land boom when property 
rose to most extraordinary values and all 
of Southern California felt the stimulus. 
As usually happens after such inflation a 
reaction followed, but from that time the 
march has been steadily fonvard with re- 
markable increase in population since the 
new century set in. In 1900 it was some- 
thing over 100,000, of whom about one-fifth 
were foreign born. In 1910 it was 319,198. 
It is now (1914) estimated at 500,000. 
Climnte, soil and situation have contributed 
to this wonderful growth, these factors re- 
ferring to neighboring cities and towns as 
well as to Los Angeles, for all Southern 
California has had a remarkable develop- 
ment during the last dozen years. This 
development is not now merely an increase 
in population and property values, but in 
fine buildings and splendid roads, in a 
magnificent water system, in irrigation 
projects, and in more intelligent cultivation 
of the land. All these are solid improve- 
ments, adding to intrinsic values and, 
taken in connection with a sti'eet railway 
system exceptionally complete, an interurban 
electric railway system remarkable for ex- 
tent, an extensive park system, and homes 
surrounded bv beautiful grounds, they ex- 
plain the groat desirability of Los Angeles 
and vicinity for a sojourn of weeks or 
months, or for a permanent home. The 
question is not whether the new comer 
can find what he wants here; but, in a 
land where mountains, valleys, ocean 



beaches, city blocks and orange groves are 
within a few minutes car-ride from one 
another, the problem is rather, to choose. 
Nearly every desire of the most complex 
nature can find satisfaction and the ques- 
tion to puzzle over is which aim, which 
desire, shall be considered paramount. 
Does one prefer a high elevation, mountain 
ail', an extended view over cultivated 
valleys and homes buried in almost tropical 
verdure; Altadena, La Canada, Sierra 
Madre, Mount Washington and other hill- 
side slopes invite him. Does he desire to 
till these fertile acres and have a home in 
the midst of walnut, peach, orange or 
lemon groves, to dwell under his own vine 
and fig tree; again La Canada calls him, 
or the Verdugo Hills, San Fernando and 
San Gabriel valleys, Santa Ana, Orange 
and other localities reach out for him and 
display their gentle slopes or level plains. 
Does the sea call him; within an hour's 
ride nearly a score of beaches stretch along 
the coast with homes ranging from a two- 
room cottage to a mansion, each settlement 
with its own peculiar attraction and all 
with the comforts of civilization and within 
a short distance from the urban luxuriesi 
of Los Angeles, with frequent interurban 
electric car service. Does a city home, in- 
cluding the suburban advantages of ex- 
tended grounds, the scent of orange blos- 
soms, rose hedges and tree-bordered ave- 
nues appeal to him; Pasadena, Redlands, 
Riverside await his choice. Or if he is a 
city man whose contentment is not com- 
plete unless he is a part of the bustling 
throng which crowds a city's pavements, 
Los Angeles, the metropolis of the South- 
west, beckons with myriad advantages few 
of her sister cities can bring together. Not 
only the usual city advantages of business 
oppoi'tunities, fine schools, churches sup- 
plied with the best talent, libraries, clubs, 
theaters, museums, hospitals; but. coupled 
with these, inducements unusual for a city, 
of comfortable all-the-year homos, where 
summer nights ai'e always cool, the hottest 
days not really sultry and the coolest days 
not really cold ; where broad, well shaded 
avenues extend in every direction lined 
with homes whose architecture is adapted 
to the climate, each house possessing an 
individuality and standing in grounds 
where nature works every day in the year 
to produce the lawns, trees, shrubs and 
flowers which lend to them all the attrac- 
tions of suburban homes. Surely the man 
would be discontented in Paradise who 
could not satisfy himelf here. 



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ALLIGATOR FARM— Adjoining East- 
lake Park is this curious industry, afford- 
ing a novel and interesting exhibition. The 
"farm" is the home of from one to two 
thousand alligators ranging from tiny ones 
ibout the size of a small lizard to huge 
beasts twenty feet long and more than two 
hundred years old. Visitors are shown 
over the grounds by competent guides, and 
trained alligators are exhibited daily at 
four o'clock. They climb a steep incline 
and "shoot the chutes" into a small lake. 
They are haniessed to, and draw, a small 
cart and perform various tricks. They are 
raised for sale, but principally for the use 
of their skins, which are manufactured into 
bags, purses, belts, and many other articles 
exhibited in the salesroom. 

AMUSEMENTS— Time can never hang 
heavy on the hands of the visitor in Los 
Angeles, nor can the Angeleno himself ever 
want for amusement. The climate and en- 
virons contribute to his enjoyment while all 
the out-of-door sports, except those de- 
pendent upon snow and ice, flourish the 
year around. 

Baseball — Lovers of baseball can witness 
the great American game daily, exeej^t 
Mondays, in Baseball Park at Grand Ave- 
nue and Washington Street. The game be- 
gins at 2:45. There is also a baseball park 
at Venice. 

Bathing and Swimming — Numerous 
beaches within easy reach of the city o&ev 
themselves for both surf and still-water 
bathing and the mild climate permits them 
to be enjoyed throughout the year. At the 
Bimini Baths in the city is a splendid 
swimming tank of delightful mineral water, 
constantly renewed; and at Venice, Long 
Beach, Redondo Beach and Ocean Park 
are salt water swimming and plunge baths. 

Coaching — The mountain coach ride at 
Catalina Island in four-in-hand or six-in- 
liand coaches is an experience full of de- 
light for lovers of scenery. From a wind- 
ing, ever-climbing mountain road are ob- 
tained glorious views of sky and hillsides 
and the ever-changing sea. 

Fishing — Catalina Island is a paradise for 
fishermen, a world-famous fishing ground 
for sword-fish and the gamiest fighting 
fish in the world, the leaping tuna, which 
is also caught off Redondo Beach and 
Venice. The fish weigh from 80 to 250 
pounds and the season is from May to 
October. Sword-fish weigh from 100 to 350 
pounds and the season is from June to 
December. Several other smaller varieties 



of tuna are to be had, and several vaiieties 
of sea bass. Black sea bass weighing from 
100 to 450 pounds are caught from April 
to December. The season for white sea 
bass, almost as gamey a fish as the tuna, 
is from March to November. Barracuda, 
whitefish, sheepshead and many others are 
to be had. All the beaches afford fine fish- 
ing gi'ounds, both from the wharves and 
from boats. Sole, halibut, yellowtail, 
mackerel, pompano, yellow-fins, corbina, 
bonita and many small fish are taken. 
Trout are found in the streams of moun- 
tain canyons near Los Angeles. 

G-olf and Tennis invite their followers at 
every country club, of which there are a 
number within a short distance of the city, 
the Los Angeles, the Pasadena, the Alta- 
dena, the San Gabriel Valley country clubs 
and the Annandale Golf Club. There are 
also fine links and a club-house on Catalina 
Island. Several of the large tourist hotels 
maintain private links. 

Hunting — Deer, bear, wildcats, mountain 
lions, rabbits, squirrel and quail are found 
in the mountains of Los Angeles County. 
Wild ducks abound on the salt marshes, 
and on Catalina Island mountain goats 
afford sport for the hunter. 

Motoring — Wonderfully smooth automo- 
bile I'oads extend for miles in every direc- 
tion, to the mountains, to the sea, through 
wild and picturesque scenery, through 
scented orange groves, through highly 
cultivated and fertile valleys. The charm 
of motoring in Southern California is 
something difficult to describe. Not only 
may every variety of scenery be enjoyed, 
but, from the latest developments of our 
complex life of today, one may slip back 
along the j^ears to the old missions, the 
interesting and, when not too painfully 
modernized, beautiful reminders lof 
eighteenth century days of the Spanish 
regime on this coast. 

Parks — Amusement parks at several of 
the beach resorts offer attractions for those 
who enjoy scenic railways, roller-coasters, 
"trips to Cloudland" and "shooting the 
chutes. ' ' Parks for rest and recreation, as 
well as play grounds for children, are in 
every quarter of the city. Westlake and 
Eastlake parks. Echo Park and Hollenbeck 
Park contain artificial lakes, furnished with 
row-boats, and the lakes are quite large 
enough for a pleasant boat ride. Near 
Eastlake Park is a zoo, an aviary and an 
aquarium. 



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'"Trcf- 



AN ALL-THE- YEAR-ROUND SPORT IN LOS ANGELES WATERS 
The yachtsman has within his reach the wonders of Alaska and the mysterious islands of the southern seas 



Polo — Southern California is a rendez- 
vous for polo players, and match games 
and tournaments are played evei'y fall and 
winter on the grounds of the Pasadena and 
Riverside Polo clubs, also at the Coronado 
Country Club. 

Theaters — Los Angeles is well supplied 
with theaters, though perhaps the theater 
should no longer be regarded as a place of 
amusement, but there can be no doubt 
about vaudeville entertainments, of Avhich 
the Orphcum, Pantages and the Empress 
are the principal ones. There are over a 
hundred moving pictui'e shows in the city. 
For further information see general article 
''Theaters." 

Yachting — Yachting and motor-boating 
both have their devotees. Los Angeles 
harbor is perhaps the favorite. The club- 
house of the South Coast Yacht Club is on 
Terminal Island. The opening of the 
Panama Canal will undoubtedly bring 
many large eastern yachts to the harbors 
near Los Angeles. Instead of laying them 
up for the winter where they must be 
closely covered, and where care must be 
taken to keep them free fi'om ice, their 



owners find this coast is a desirable yacht- 
ing ground in Avinter as Avell as summer. 
Pacific Avaters, AA'ith their Mediterranean 
blue depths and clearness, are themselves 
a delight. All up and doAvn the coast the 
scenery is varied and fascinating Avhile, 
Avith this coast as a base, the yachtsman 
has Avithin his reach the Avonders of Alaska 
and the mysterious islands of the Southern 
Seas. 

There are also the trips and excursions! 
A new one may be taken every day for 
Aveeks before the Adsitor has tried them 
all and become acquainted Avith the diversi- 
fied attractions of the surroundings of 
Los Angeles. With this beautiful neighbor- 
ing country, including both mountains and 
sea, and with all the above sports to be 
enjoyed, not only for a few Aveeks or 
months, but for the Avhole year through, 
Los Angeles may rightly claim to be a 
Mecca for the health-seeker, the pleasure- 
seeker, and for those in need of new in- 
terests and recreations. 

ANGELENO HEIGHTS — The high 
ground just beyond Echo Park, in the 
northwestern part of the city. 



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ANGELS' FLIGHT— A stcop incline, 
between liill and Olive streets, at Third. 
The ascent is so steep that the ear is 
built like a stairway, to prevent the pas- 
sengers from falling- in a huddle at the 
K)\ver end. The ear is drawn by a cable 
Avhich lowers one ear as the other rises. 
From the pavilion at the summit there is 
an extensive view over tlie city and, if it 
is very clear, Catalina Island may be seen 
iu the distance. 

ANIMAL FARM— Near Eastlake Park 
is an enclosure containing an interesting 
zoological collection, all the wild animals 
usually' found in such places. 

AQUARIA — An interesting aquarium is 
maintained near Eastlake Park. There is 
also one at Venice and one at Avalon. All 
contain rare specimens of marine life and 
are educational as well as curious. 

AQUEDUCT— The Owens River Aque- 
duct is one of the greatest engineering 
feats of modern times and one of the 



largest entei-prises ever undertaken by an 
American city. It is built to supply Los 
Angeles with water from the Owens River 
which itself is fed from the everlasting 
snows of Mount Whitney, the highest 
mountain in the United States outside of 
Alaska. The aqueduct is nearly 250 mih-s 
long, the second longest in the world, and 
Ikis more than forty miles of tunnels. It 
is wholly built of steel and concrete. One 
tunnel, the Great Elizabeth, is five miles 
long, bored through solid rock. Before 
the water was turned in, electric trains 
passed back and forth through it, carry- 
ing supplies. The aqueduct is designed to 
deliver daily into the San Fernando reser- 
voir a minimum of 258,000,000 gallons, but 
500,000,000 gallons can pass through it in 
twenty-four hours. Not only will enough 
water be available for Los Angeles with 
a population of two millions, but there 
will be enough surplus to irrigate all the 
tillable land in the adjoining country. A 
large amount of electric power will also 
be generated, whicli will be available for 




TROUT FISIIIXG IX STREAMS OF MOUNTAIN CANYONS NEAR LOS ANC.ELES 
A tonic for the tired brain 



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And Behold! A new Li^tit, beaming a Welcome far out to sea, and over the 
City of Destiny fulfilled — the Great Metropolis of the Great West — Los 
Angeles the Incomparaole 



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lighting and manufacturing purposes. The 
system is wholly by gravity. The total 
cost of the work will be about $25,000,000. 
It was necessary to spend about $4,000,000 
in preliminary work before the actual 
work on the aqueduct could begin. More 
than 200 miles of mountain roads and 
trails were built, some cut out of solid 
rock; 150 miles of pipe line to carry water 
to employees; a telephone system 250 
miles long was constructed ; 140 miles of 
broad-gauge railroad was built across the 
Mojave Desert; three hydro-electric power 
plants were built to furnish power and 
light for camps and tunnels, and a cement 
mill which could furnish 1,250 barrels of 
cement daily. About 1,250,000 barrels of 
cement Avei'e used in lining the aqueduct. 
Four thousand men were employed. The 
work was carried on simultaneously at 
forty-five different points. 

AREA OF LOS ANGELES, 288.21 
square miles — This gives plenty of room 
for the population to expand without 
crowding and is one reason for the ex- 
ceptional beauty of the residence sections. 

ARMORY— The State Armory is a hand- 
some building in Exposition Park which 
is on Vermont and Santa Barbara avenues. 

ARROYO SECO (Dry Creek)— The 

channel and upper valley of a "dry river" 
extending from the Forest Reserve five or 
six miles north of Pasadena, through 
Pasadena and South Pasadena, to a junc- 
tion with the Los Angeles River near 
Elysian Park. The present channel, vary- 
ing from fifty to several hundred feet in 
width, has cut itself fi'om the wider valley 
which was once the bed of the stream. 
The channel is dry most of the year, but 
occasionally water comes to the surface 
and sometimes it is flooded. The Arroyo 
is picturesque throughout its length and 
a short distance north of Pasadena be- 
comes a narrow rocky gorge of rugged 
grandeur called the Devil's Gate. It is 
proposed to convert the borders of the 
Arroyo Seco into a parkway, connecting 
the Forest Reserve with Elysian Park, in- 
cluding Sycamore Grove on its way. This 
parkway will be about ten and one-half 
miles in length and will form a part of a 
proposed boulevard from the mountains to 
the sea, connecting through Elysian Park 
with the proposed Silver Lake parkway, 
both north to Griffith Park and southwest 
to Santa Monica Boulevard. 



ART COMMISSION— Los Angeles was 
the second city in the United States to 
create a Municipal Art Commission, New 
York being the first. There are now fif- 
teen. In the beginning it was merely an 
advisory board created by the city coun- 
cil, but by a later charter it was em- 
powered to reject plans of public build- 
ings, monuments or statuary not conform- 
ing to the standards of the commission. 
The mayor, city engineer, and inspector of 
buildings are ex-offieio members. There 
are six others, chosen irrespective of sex. 

ASSOCIATED CHARITIES— The office 
of the Associated Chanties of Los Angeles 
is at 232 North Main Street, opposite the 
Post Office Building. The Industrial De- 
partment and Free Labor Bureau are at 
912 Date Street. The council of the 
Associated Charities consists of persons 
appointed or elected by the Los Angeles 
Chamber of Commerce, by the Merchants' 
and Manufacturers' Association, by the 
Chai'ity Conference Committee, from the 
annual members of the Associated Chari- 
ties, together with ex-officio members, the 
mayor, chief of police, city and county 
physicians, chairman of the board of super- 
visors and president of the city council. 

AUDITORIUMS— Los Angeles has two 
large auditoriums and is thus able to take 
care of conventions of the largest size. 
The Shrine Auditorium holds ten thou- 
sand. On Fifth Street, between Hill and 
Olive streets, is the Temple Auditorium 
Building. The Auditorium, with its four 
galleries, seats four thousand people. It 
is occupied on Sunday by the Temple 
Baptist Church. During the week the 
room is available for lectures, theaters 
and other large gatherings. There are 
besides in the building two large concert 
rooms, a banquet- room seating one thou- 
sand, and many offices. The Auditorium 
contains one of the largest and finest 
organs in the West, with chimes attach- 
ment. 

AUTOMOBILES — Los Angeles very 
nearly heads the list of American cities 
in number of automobiles in proportion 
to population. And this is no wonder 
when one considers the boulevards, smooth 
as a floor, which traverse the city and 
lead out from it in every direction, to- 
gether with the entrancing and varied 
scenes which make of each route a pano- 
rama of beautiful pictures. 

The legal rate for public automobiles or 
taxicabs, subject to change by later ordi- 



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BANK CLEARINGS 
Our growth 

1910 $811,377,487 
'Oil 943,963,357 



1912 1,168,941,700 

1913 1,211,167,980 



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nances, is as follows: For seven persons, 
including- chauffeur, $5 per hour for each 
hour "where period does not exceed five 
consecutive hours, and $4 per hour after 
first five hours. 

For automobile for live persons, includ- 
ing chauffeur, $4 per hour for each hour 
where the time does not exceed five hours, 
and $3.50 per hour after first five hours. 

For automobile built for two, including 
chauffeur, $3 per hour for five hours and 
$2 for each additional hour. 

AVIATION FIELDS— Doniinguez Avia- 
tion Field is near Wilmington. Here there 
is a large grandstand from which thou- 
sands have viewed the world's greatest 
aviators in record flights. firiffith Park 
Aviation Field lies on the north side of 
Griffith Park. 

BANKS — There are in Los Angeles 
thirtv-two banks with a capitalization and 
surplus of over $27,000,000. The bank 
clearances for 1914 were $1,145,167,110.19. 
Deposits were $164,131,669.30. They are in 
a solid and prosperous condition, most of 
them in handsome buildings and a large 
number are elegant and luxurious in rooms 
and appointments. Among the most strik- 
ing are the Hellman banks, the Security 
Trust and Savings Bank, The Gei-man 
American, the First National, and the Los 
Angeles Trust and Savings. A feature of 
one of the Hellman banks (the Home In- 
stitution, at Sixth and Main streets) which 
is of great benefit to tourists is its 
night service, enabling them to draw or 
deposit money at unusual hours. The in- 
teriors of the Security Trust and Savings 
and of the First National banks are un- 
usually beautiful. The latter has a charm- 
ing ladies' room and lady tellers for the 
accommodation of its women patrons. Sev- 
eral of the banks maintain Infoi-mation 
Bureaus (which see). The Los Angeles 
Trust and Savings Bank at Sixth and 
Spring streets has an excellent map, copies 
of which may be had free on request. 

The strength of the Los Angeles banks 
is shown by their success in weathering 
the financial storms of the past twenty 
years and by the rapid increase of their 
bank cleai-ings. 

BEACHES — Although, strictly speaking, 
none of the beaches belongs to Los Angeles 
(San Pedro being a harbor rather than a 
beach), yet they are so closely connected 
with Los Angeles that they form an inte- 



gral part of the city's life. Tlieie are :i 
.-^rore or more lo be icaclicd by an electric 
car-ride of an hour or two, each wiLh 
attractions peculiar to itself, each sending 
commuters to the city, each drawing people 
from it for rest or pleasure. The seeker for 
quiet and repose can find what he needs; 
the one looking for gaiety can also be 
suited. A two-mik' boulevard along the 
shores of the blue Pacific connects all ol' 
the principal beaches which come in quick 
succession Venice, Santa Monica, Ocean 
Park, etc. At Venice and Ocean Park one 
may enjoy the pleasure of a dip in the Pa- 
cific any day in the year, while for those 
that prefer water of a little warmer tem- 
perature excellent bath houses are pro- 
vided with special swimming pools. Sonae 
of the most famous cafes of Southern 
California are situated at these beaches, 
chief among which are the ''Shii), " Nat 
Goodwin's and Sunset. 

Most of these beaches, with their main 
characteristics, are described under Special 
Pleasure Trips. 

BIBLE INSTITUTE— It will pay any 
one interested in the study of the Bible, 
the spread of the Gospel and the uplifting 
of his fellow-men, to look into the methods 
and results of this organization. The ob- 
ject of this school is the training of 
Christian men and women for the World 
Field ; but, as adjuncts to its elass-work. 
the Institute maintains extension class 
work; evening classes; a con-espondence 
school; Bible women's work, employing 
eleven experienced and consecrated women 
in the outlying districts of the city; the 
Jewish work of giving the Gospel to the 
people of Israel, having access to hundreds 
of homes ; the Spanish Mission, woi'king 
among the thousands of Mexicans in the 
city an.d vicinity and open day and night; 
Shop Meetings in railway shops and other 
industrial plants; the Oil-Field Mission, 
consisting of two men with wagon and 
outfit traversing- this needy field and giv- 
ing to hundreds of men the only Gospel 
privileges they can have; a mission for 
men in the heart of the down-town district ; 
a sailors' mission and a printing establish- 
ment and a book-room. 

The handsome new reinforced concrete 
building of the Institute on Hope Street, 
between Fifth and Sixth streets, cost three- 
quarters of a million and is an important 
addition to the architectural features of 
the city. 



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CITY AND COUNTY ROADS 

Four luindred miles of perfect roads 
lure the motorist to a ceaseless 
charm which lurks throughout the 
orange, the olive, and the eucalyptus 
groves, over awe-inspiring mountain 
ranges, into deep canyons, and along 
the seashore of Los Angeles County. 



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NATATORIUM AND SANITARIUM, BIMINI HOT SPRINGS 
The scene of water sports every Friday evening. Here are the finest swimming tanks in Southern California 



BIMINI HOT SPRINGS— This famous 
health and pleasure resort is located on 
Vermont Avenue, between First and Third 
streets, Los Angeles. The water of these 
springs, whose curative powers have be- 
come famous, was discovered when boi'ing 
for oil in the year 1900, and there is an 
inexhaustible supply. It was found be- 
neath a hard crust of soda three feet in 
thickness at a depth of 1,750 feet. The 
natural flow is one hundred gallons per 
minute at 104 degTees Farenheit. 

An expert in mineral waters, after 
scientific tests, purchased this spring and 
adjoining acreage. It is a thermal alkaline- 
saline water which carries, in the order 
named, sodium, carbonate, sodium chloride, 
potassium chloride, silica, calcium carbon- 
ate, magnesium carbonate, iron and alumi- 
num. It is also impregnated with petro- 
leum gas and other highly medicinal prop- 
erties which are derived from crude petro- 
leum. It is claimed to be far superior to 
the common sulphur waters in the treat- 
ment of all uric acid conditions, intestinal 
indigestion, catai'rhal conditions of the 
alimentary and urinary tracts, obesity, and 
kidney and liver affections. 

In the short space of ten years this 
health resort has become one of the promi- 
nent attractions in bringing thousands of 



health-seekers to Los Angeles. During the 
year 1913 over 250,000 baths were given. 
The buildings at present consist of the 
natatorium, containing three large swim- 
ming-pools, five hundred dressing-i-ooms. 
fifty private tub-baths and seventy rooms 
equipped for the treatment department. 

Adjoining the bath-house proper is the 
Bimini Hotel, where out-of-town patients 
may enjoy all the comforts of a modern 
home. In such a superb location, wdth 
five lines of the Los Angeles railway cen- 
tering there and only twenty minutes from 
the business center of the city, Bimini 
Hot Springs gives promise of becoming the 
Cai'lsbad of America. 

BOULEVARDS AND AUTOMOBILE 

ROADS— Smooth, dustless boulevards tra- 
versing the city and extending from it in 
every direction, make of niotonng a never- 
tiring pleasure. In the city itself Wilshire 
Boulevard, lined with beautiful homes 
(and crossed by streets almost equally 
beautiful), the Westlake and West Adams 
districts offer drives of unsurpassed urban 
attractions. A tour of Westlake, Sunset, 
Echo, Elysian, Eastlake and Hollenbeck 
pai'ks gives a variety of beautiful park 
scenery, including splendid trees, tropical 
shrubbery, wondrous flowers and shining 
lakes. To Santa Monica, Venice and 



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Ocean Park one may go and return by 
different routes, the longer, scenic route 
passing through the Third Street tunnel to 
Sunset Boulevard, thence through Holly- 
wood on Hollywood Boulevard, through 
Sherman, Beverly Hills and the Soldiers' 
Home near Sawtelle, to Santa Monica and, 
on Ocean Boulevard, parallel to the ocean,' 
to Ocean Park and Venice. One may also 
take the shorter route, west on Washington 
Street to Venice. 

The drive to Long Beach is by way of 
Slauson Avenue and Long Beach Boule- 
vard, something over twenty miles. From 
Long Beach, Ocean Front Boulevard ex- 
tends five miles along the bluffs over the 
surf. The Beach Drive extends for ten 
miles along the strand close to the shore. 

Another road leads to Redondo Beach 
via Inglewood, thence to San Pedro or 
Long Beach via Wilmington. 

North Broadway, Pasadena Avenue and 
Huntington Drive lead into Pasadena, the 
city of roses, orange groves and beautiful 
homes. Altadena, just beyond, shows 
homes scarcely less charming, with a wider 
outlook and beautiful mountain pictures. 

Turning to the right at Alhambra, on 
the way to Pasadena, one passes San 
Gabriel, the old San Gabriel Mission, and 
the home of the Mission Play. A drive 
north from Hollywood, through the Ca- 
hueuga Pass, leads into the beautiful San 
Fernando Valley and along a wonderful 
boulevard 170 feet wide, and fifteen miles 
long, level as a floor, bordered by flowers 
and shrubbery and lighted all the way by 
graceful electroliers. Lankershim, Van 
Nuys, Owensmouth, the great dam of the 
neW aqueduct, and the old San Fernando 
Mission may be reached by way of this 
boulevard. 

The road winding through the hills and 
valleys of La Canada affords a series of 
beautiful pictures, both near at hand and 
those embracing a distant outlook. Or- 
chards and gTOves alternating with wilder 
natui'al scenery stretch out to the moun- 
tains which encompass them. Beautiful 
homes are being built among the hills. 
La Canada is reached by the County Good 
Roads Boulevard. 

The Griffith Park Drive, going north on 
Vermont Avenue to Los Feliz and by Los 
Feliz to the river entrance to the park, 
offers, in connection with the park itself, 
much beautiful scenery. The drive of ten 
miles in the park is bordered with ferns 
and wild flowers and shrubbery, with 
beautiful live-oaks on every side, through 



which now and then charming glimpses 
may be had of the San Fernando Valley 
and the distant mountains. Vines dra{)e 
the trees which ai'ch over the road, and 
in places the sun is almost excluded. 

Another beautiful scenic trip is to Look- 
out Mountain, fifteen miles from Los 
Angeles. The way is north through the 
Third Street tunnel to Sunset Boulevard, 
through Hollywood to Laurel Canyon, up 
the canyon for half-a-mile and then a 
winding, zigzag road to the top of the 
mountain. From here spreads out a 
wondrous view, embracing Los Angeles and 
the Pacific Ocean. 

A drive of 160 miles includes Riverside, 
Redlands, San Bernardino, Arrowhead Hot 
Springs and back along the Fort Hill 
Boulevard, passing through Cucamonga, 
Claremont, Glendora, Azusa, Duarte, Ar- 
cadia and by way of Huntington Drive into 
Los Angeles. 

The automobile trip to San Diego and 
Coronado may be made by either of two 
routes, the Valley or the Coast road. The 
latter is somewhat shorter. The road leads 
first to Santa Ana and thence through Tus- 
tin and Irvine to San Juan Capistrano. 
Here is one of the most beautiful of Cali- 
fornia's old missions, both originally and 
in its half-ruined state. From here the 
road leads to San Luis Rey, another fine 
example of mission architecture, thence to 
Oceanside and along the shore to Del Mar 
and San Diego, twenty-eight miles beyond. 
Coronado is close by and reached by fen-y. 
From either Coronado or San Diego many 
delightful motor trips can be taken. (See 
San Diego.) 

A trip to Santa Barbara, 112 miles north, 
is another possibility, going by way of 
Sunset Boulevard, through Hollywood ana 
the Cahuenga Pass into the San Fernando 
Valley. After leaving the level valley there 
are two stil¥ grades before reaching Santa 
Barbara, but both are entirely practicable, 
and signs of the Southern California Auto- 
mobile Club point the way along the route. 
Around Santa Barbara there are innumer- 
able beautiful drives, the Mountain Drive 
being an especially notable one. 

Work is begun on a new county road 
from the mouth of Topanga Canyon, on the 
Santa Monica and Malibu Coast road, 
through the canyon to the summit. With 
the completion of this road, the proposed 
extension, and improvement of the coast 
road, a belt line boulevard matchless for 
beauty and variety of scenery will be 
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ralifornia. Starting from the city the 
route will be through suburban Los Angeles 
to Santa Monica, seventeen miles, then 
seven miles of beach drive close to the 
shore, the glorious Pacific on one side and 
the rugged Santa Monica mountains on the 
other. From the month of Topanga Canyon 
to Owensmouth is fifteen or twenty miles, 
aceoi'ding to the route finally decided upon. 
The scenery is ruggedly grand most of the 
way. At the summit a splendid vista is 
spread out in all directions. Beyond there 
are wooded stretches where the road 
follows a brook and win'^s among giant 
trees. From Owensmouth to Hollywood, 
through Van Nuys is about twenty miles, 
and from Hollywood to Los Angeles, eight. 
The whole round trip Avill be about sixty- 
cia'ht miles. 

BOYLE HEIGHTS— Tliat part of the 
city on a mesa, or table-land, on the east 
side of the Los Angeles River and lying 
south of East Los Angeles. HoUenbeck 
Park is on Rovle Heights. 

CAFES— See Restaurants. 

CAHUENGA PASS AND VALLEY— 
Running northwest from Los Angeles, 
sheltered from the north wind by the 
Santa Monica mountains, is the beautiful 
(^ahuenga Valley, practically a frostless 
l)elt, of Avhich Hollywood, "the enchanted 
city" is the crowning feature. Cahuenga 
Pass leads from the valley through the 
Santa Monica range into the San Fernan- 
do Valley. This is historic ground. 
Through this pass Father Serra and the 
.'•rood padres who followed him must have 
worn a pathway, so many times they trod 
the way between the missions, for the 
Franciscans always walked. After the ex- 
))lorers and the founders came settlers 
from Mexico, taking the way of the pass 
into the San Fernando Valley. Later 
the hills above the pass was the meeting 
ground between the contending Californi- 
ans and Americans, and two white pillars 
noAv mark the spot where the peace com- 
pact was signed by the commandants, 
Fremont and Andres Pico. Many years 
after this the United States Government 
experimented in the use of camels as 
l)easts of burden in what seemed a desert 
country, and curious. Oriental-looking 
cai'avans marching throiigh the pass made 
the chance observer rah his eyes and 
wonder if he had been transported to tlie 
Ultimate East. A fine automobile boule- 
vard now follows this section of the old 
Camino Real into the valley. 



CENTRAL SQUARE— Next to the 

oldest park in the city, the square bounded 
by Fifth and Sixth streets. Hill and 
Olive. It is a delightful oasis in the 
busiest part of the city's life — a block of 
lawn and beautiful trees, with a cool 
fountain splashing in the center. Benches 
"line the walks and they are usually well 
filled. There is an impressive Soldier's 
Monument and a Spanish cannon on the 
northeastern corner. On its eastern border 
are convenience stations. Three of the 
principal clinrches of the city, St. Paul's 
Pro-Cathedral, the First Methodist and 
Temple Baptist, face the square, also the 
California Club Building. 

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE— The Los 
Angeles Chamber of Commerce was 
founded in 1888. Its objects are "to 
foster and encourage commerce; to stimu- 
late home manufactui-es; to assist in 
securing a market for our products ; to 
induce immigration, and the sub-division, 
settlement and cultivation of our lands; 
to assist in the development of the 
material resources of the region; and 
generally to promote the business in- 
terests of Southern California." It does 
all this by means of a permanent exhibit 
of the agricultural and mineral products 
of the State, by exhibits in other cities 
and at Expositions, by daily lectures 
illustrated by beautiful colored lantern 
slides and by the dissemination of printed 
matter relating to the products, resources 
and possibilities of Southern California. 
The Chamber of Commerce Building is a 
seven-story edifice at 122-134 S. Broad- 
way. The second and third floors, attic 
and basement are occupied by the Cham- 
ber for its various activities. Shops and 
offices occupy the rest of the building and 
furnish an income which is paying the 
principal and interest of the bonds issued 
for its erection. 

The exhibit maintained by the Chamber 
is a very fine one, ranging chronologically 
fi'om pre-historic Indian relics down to 
the latest productions of agricultural and 
horticultural skill. There is a collection 
of the minerals found in the State; there 
is an exhibit of crude oils and distillates 
representing the petroleum wealth of the 
State; there are interesting and instructive 
relief maps of the surrounding country, 
and literature relating to the cities and 
counties of the State which is freely dis- 
tributed by people who are ready tc 
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exhibits or to the State's resources; and 
there are tempting disphiys of fruits and 
vegetables in bewildei'ing variety, both in 
their natural form and preserved in tall 
glass jars. The variety of fruit is aston- 
ishing, and all are to be found in the 
markets of Los Angeles. 

On the third floor is the lecture room, 
where, from 9 :30 a. m. to late afternoon 
(with a noon intermission) one may listen 
to half-hour talks on different sections of 
the State, given by experts and illustrated 
by lantern slides v?hich portray the won- 
ders and beauty of California scenery, 
systems of irrigation, crops in great 
variety, fields of flowers, and citrus groves 
of Southern California. Each locality 
described has its desirable features and 
peculiar attractions and he is a peculiar 
person who cannot find in some corner of 
California a spot which suits him. 

Perhaps the most interesting section of 
the Chamber of Commerce, both to the 
traveler and to the dweller in Los Angeles, 
is the room devoted to the Coronel collec- 
tion. This being practically a museum, is 
described under the heading MUSEUMS. 
The collection was given by Mrs. Coronel 
to the Chamber of Commerce with the' 
proviso that it should remain intact, and 
not be merged into other collections. 

CHAMBER OF MINES AND OILS— 

Room 300, Germain Building, 224 South 
Spring Street. A small mining and scien- 
tific library is here, open to the public for 
reference. There is also an exhibit. 

CHINATOWN— North of the old plaza, 
at North Los Angeles and Marchessault 
streets, is Chinatown, a fantastic bit of 
the Orient which furnishes the tourist with 
many interesting sights, both during the 
day and evening. For the stranger a 
guide is desirable, particularly in the 
evening. Unless one is going merely for 
shopping, a guide will add much to the 
pleasure of the visit, since he will have 
access to places not open to evei*yone, and 
will explain curious customs of the 
Chinese. The Chinese shops are filled 
with attractive and beautiful articles and 
the quaint dresses of the women and 
children are a never-ending source of 
interest. For any festal occasion the 
costumes of men and women are beautiful 
in quality and color and the effect is highly 
decorative. 



CHURCHES- -Los Angeles, if unable to 
wrest fruni Brooklyn its title of the City 
of Churches, may truthfully be called a 
city of church-goers. Surrounded, as the 
city is, by every out-door attraction call- 
ing the people every month of the year, it 
is reMi;irkal)le that almost universally 
throughout the city the congregations 
siiould be so large, in several churches at 
both services, crowding the audience room 
to the utmost limit of standing room. 
Facing Central Square in the business 
district of the city are three churches, a 
Baptist, a Methodist and an Episcopalian, 
with auditoriums seating respectively 
three thousand, about twenty-five hundred 
and eighteen hundred. Go into any one 
of them at a Sunday service, morning or 
evening, and you will see few or no vacan- 
cies; if you are a little late the chances 
are that you will get no seat at all. What 
has been said of the congi-egations of 
the churches on Central Square applies 
almost equally well to the churches 
throughout the citj'. 

Los Angeles possesses the further dis- 
tinction, unusual in a non-prohibition 
town, of having more churches than 
saloons. 

The following are some of the leading 
churches, with their addresses: 

St. Vibiana, the Cathedral of the Roman 
Catholic diocese. Main Street, near Second. 

Our Lady of the Angels (R. C), the old 
Mission church, North Main Street at the 
Plaza. Spanish sermon at 9 o'clock mass. 

The Synagogue of the Congregation 
B'nai B'rith is on the comer of Ninth 
and Hope streets. 

Temple Baptist Church hold services in 
the Temple Auditorium at Fifth and Olive 
streets. 

First Methodist, Sixth and Hill streets. 

Trinity Methodist (South), 847 S. Grand 
Avenue, a big institutional church. 

St. John's Church (Episcopal), West 
Adams and Figueroa streets. 

St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral (Episcopal), 
523 South Olive Street. 

Christ Church (Episcopal), southwest 
corner of Flower and Twelfth streets. 

Immanuel Presbyterian, Tenth and Fig- 
ueroa streets. 

First Congregational, 837 South Hope 
Street. 

Bethlehem Congregational, an institu- 
tional church which works among foreign- 
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Magnolia Avenue Christian Church, 

Twenty-fifth Street and Mag-nolia Avenue. 

First Unitarian, 925 Soutli Flower 
Street. 

Seventh Day Adventists, 123 South Dit- 
man Street. 

The Second Church of Christ, Scientist, 
has a strikin,<i"ly handsome l)uilding on 
"West Adams Street, near Hoover. 

Tlie Lutherans, Methodists and Baptists 
and Presbyterians have churches for sev- 
eral different nationalities, Swedish, Ger- 
man, Norwegian and Danish, and there 
are numerous missions for Chinese and 
other foreigners throughout the city. 

CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF THE 
ANGELS — Plaza, or old Mission Church. 
This church is not one of the original 
chain of missions founded in a wdlderness 
to convert and civilize the Indians of the 
surrounding country, but one built for the 
accommodation of the settlers in the little 
Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles which 
was founded in 1781. At first the settlers 
worshipped at San Gabriel, though the 
padres made the little town a resting place 
in their journej^s betw^een San Gabriel and 
San Fernando. Later the Pueblo was 
given its own place of worship. This was 
a temporary chapel on the bank of the 
river, near Aliso Street. It was supplied 
by the padres from San Gabriel. As a 
great flood overflowed the site the chapel 
was moved to higher ground near Buena 
Vista Street. In 1811 the church was 
begun on the present site and finished and 
dedicated in 1822. The early buildings 
have since been very much remodeled and 
portions wholly rebuilt, but enough of the 
early structure remains to render the place 
worthy of attention, and in one of the 
original rooms is a most interesting col- 
lection of early mission relics, including 
an old bencr carved by the Mission In- 
dians; an altar antependium used at the 
first Pontifical mass celebrated in this 
church ; old church paintings, some 
brought from Spain and Mexico; and 
many other things which revive to our 
imaginations the early days of the mis- 
sions and show us how fertile the padres 
were in resoui'ce, how much they were 
able to accomplish with the few materials 
within their reach. 

The mission is in charge of the Mission- 
ary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of 
Mary, an oi'der founded in Spain in 1849. 
The church, which is on North Main 
Street opposite the old Plaza, serves as the 



parish church for the Spanish and Mexi- 
cans of the neighborhood. 

CHURCH OF THE ANGELS— This is a 
jneniorial churcli situated in the hills north 
of Garvanza, on the border of the old 
Spanish San Rafael Ranch. It is not to 
be confused with the churcli of Our Lady 
of the Angels described above. It was 
built in 1869 by an English lady as a 
memorial to her husband, Alexander 
Robert Campbell-Johnson. In 1896 it was 
set apart as the Bishop's Chapel. There 
are many objects of interest in the churcli, 
among which are the altar and choir 
stalls, made entirely of the wood of some 
very old olive trees, cut by permission of 
the Fathers from the old San Gabriel 
Mission. Services are conducted in this 
church on Sundays and holy days. 

CHURCH FEDERATION— The Evan- 
gelical churches of the city, over two 
hundred in number, are banded together 
in a strong federation, helpful to the 
members of the organization and a power- 
ful factor for good in the city. The 
Federation has pleasant rooms on the 
upper floor of the Wright and Callender 
Building (Fourth and Hill streets), a loung- 
ing and reading room supplied with all 
important religious periodicals, a luncheon 
room, and committee rooms for different 
bands of all Christian churches. The 
rooms are a down-town center for Chris- 
tian work. The pastor of each church 
and one layman for every three hundred 
members form a council which meets once 
a month. 

CITY HALL— The City Hall is an im- 
pressive red sandstone and brick building 
with a large square tower, on South 
Broadway, between Second and Third 
streets. It was built in 1888, but a later 
annex has added to its capacity. It is 
inadequate for the business of the rapidly 
growing city and some of the departments 
of the city's business are carried on in 
other buildings. The offices of the Board 
of Education are in the Security Building 
at Fifth and Spring streets. A new city 
hall is one of the features designed for 
the Civic Center. 

CIVIC CENTER— In 1907 Mr. Charies 
Mulford Robinson, a celebrated civic archi- 
tect of Rochester, New York, was invited 
to Los Angeles to look over the city and 
plan for its future beautification. His 
plan when completed included a public 
library and art gallery on Normal School 
Hill, with wide approaches up Fifth 



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Street; a union railroad station on the 
site of the present Arcade Station and 
widening Fifth Street for an approach 
to it from Los Angeles Street and possibly 
to include the length of Fifth Street to 
Central Square, where it would join the 
widened approach to Normal School Hill ; 
a boulevard connecting most of the parks, 
and a project for a civic, or administrative 
center, based on the buildings already 
erected, the just completed Federal Build- 
ing at Temple Street and the junction of 
Spring and Main, and the County Court 
House and annex between Temple Street, 
New High and Broadway. 

CLIMATE — It is a common saying that 
Southern California has but two kinds of 
weather, perfect and unusual. Perhaps 
we may prevent the smile which ''un- 
usual" brings to the face of the stranger 
by naming the two sorts, perfect and less 
perfect. Really bad weather cannot exist 
where there are no dull, gray, depressing 
days, almost no thunder storms, no 
cyclones, no snow and ice and slush and 
sleet, no sunstrokes, and where the hottest 
days are invariably relieved by cool nights. 
There is rain, sometimes, but it is always 
welcome, the rainy days are so few. Ac- 
cording to the United States Weather 
Bureau, only eleven times in thirty-six 
years has the thermometer gone below 
thirty-two degrees. There are hot days 
in summer; but owing to the dryness of 
the atmosphere they are not as oppressive 
as many degrees less heat in Eastern 
cities, and nearly all summer the cool 
trade winds from the Pacific act as a 
great modifier of the heat. The first rain 
may come any time between the middle 
of September and the middle of November, 
lasting sometimes for several days, or 
parts of days. There will probably follow 
several weeks of uninterrupted sunshine, 
then perhaps another rain. These early 
rains wash the atmosphere clean and leave 
a peculiar crystalline clearness which 
makes mountains and distant objects seem 
wonderfully neai'. Rain in Los Angeles 
means snow on the mountains, which 
renders them unusually beautiful as they 
stand forth in the transparent atmosphere 
and brilliant sunshine after the rain has 
passed. And the first rains of autumn are 
the harbinger of spring. Immediately the 
hills groAv green and flowers are springing 
up and blossoming in all the fields. There 
ai-e on an average during the year 309 
cloudless days, or days where the sun is 
only partly obscured. The mildness of the 



climate permits the most delicate plants 
to flourish in the open air all winter. 
Hedges of callas, of geraniums, of tender 
roses; heliotrope- and fuclisias climbing to 
second story windows; date palms and 
banana trees waving their mammoth 
leaves; orange and lemon trees loading 
the air with fragrance, these are all winter 
delights in and about Los Angeles. An- 
other charm of the climate is the variety 
which may be had within a couple of 
hour's journey, the moist, cool air of the 
beaches, the dry warmth of the valleys, 
the tonic mountain air, and even snow 
and ice are within easv reach in winter. 

CLUBS, SOCIETIES AND LODGES— 
As in other cities in this day of organiza- 
tion, Los Angeles abounds in clubs, so- 
cieties and lodges, social, intellectual and 
benevolent. There are clubs enough for 
men, but the number of women's organ- 
izations is remarkable. If any woman in 
Los Angeles does not belong to a club it 
is not because she cannot find one suited 
to her desires and needs. Below are enu- 
merated some of the principal organ- 
izations: 

The Army and Navy League meets the 
second Saturday of each month at 572 
S. Broadway. 

Athletic Club— The Los Angeles Ath- 
letic Club has a fine building splendidly 
equipped at the northeast corner of 
Seventh and Olive streets. The club apart- 
ments, which are among the finest in the 
West, include a large plunge and swim- 
ming tank. 

Automobile Club — The Automobile Clnb 
of Southern California has rooms at 1344 
S. Figueroa Street. 

California Club — An exclusive club 
which has a fine building at the north- 
Avest corner of Fifth and Hill streets. 

Camera Club — The Los Angeles Camera 
Club meets at 321 S. Hill Street every 
Thursday at 8 p. m. Strangers are 
cordiallv invited. 

City Club — An organization of men and 
women for social purposes and civic bet- 
terment, Room 717, 326 W. Third Street. 
Once a week the members have a six 
o'clock banquet at a down-town res- 
taurant, the men coming in directly from 
their business. Speakers at these ban- 
quets elucidate the various subjects in 
which the members are interested. 

Concordia Club — A Jewish Club, meet- 
ing Friday evenings at 617 West Sixteenth 
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Country Clubs — In a re^on which calls 
to the out-door life with the allurements 
and insistency of the environments of 
Los Angeles, naturally country clubs are 
popular. Where the sun shines more than 
three hundred days in the year they pay 
big returns in health and pleasure on the 
investment. There are half-a-dozen within 
easy reach of Los Angeles, and their golf 
links and tennis courts are in almost daily 
use, winter and summer. The largest of 
these is the Los Angeles Country Club 
at Beverly Hills, with a membership of 
over seven hundred. The Pasadena Country 
Club, San Gabriel Valley Country Club, 
the Altadena Country Club, and Annandale 
Golf Club are all easy of access by the 
interurban electric lines. 

Elks, Masons and Odd Fellows have 
their own buildings, the Elks at 300 S. 
Olive Street, Masonic Temple at Pico and 
Figueroa streets, and the Odd Fellows' 
Building at 2201/2 South Main Street. 

The Grand Army of the Republic meets 
in the Chamber of Commerce Building on 
the first Tuesday of each month. 

Gamut Club — The home of the Gamut 
Club, a musical organization, is at 1044 
South Hope Street. 

Harvard Club of Southern California — 
Room 801 Wright and Callendar Building, 
Fourth and Hill streets. 

Hebrew Club — The Los Angeles Hebrew 
Club meets every first and third Sunday 
at 547") Broadway. 

Jonathan Club — One of the principal 
men's social clubs, their handsome rooms 
occupying the eighth and ninth floors of 
the Pacific Electric Building at Sixth and 
Main streets. 

Landmarks Club— This club was incor- 
porated in 1895 "to conserve the missions 
and other historic landmarks of Southern 
Califoi-nia. " Many of the historic mis- 
sions were fast crumbling into ruin. 
When once unroofed the disintegrating 
effect of rain on adobe structures is very 
rapid. These mission buildings of the 
early Franciscans in Texas, New Mexico 
and Southern California are by far the 
most impressive and most romantic land- 
marks of the United States, both archi- 
tecturally and historically. To preserve 
them for posterity was a task worthy of 
effort, time and money. The Landmarks 
Club has accomplished wonders with the 
means at its disposal and to its efforts we 
owe the continued existence of many of 
the mission buildinsrs. 



Press Club— 814 South Spring Street. 

Princeton Club of Southern California- 
Room 232 Security Building, Fifth and 
Spring streets. 

Sequoya League — An incorporated asso- 
ciation of friends of the Indians, whose 
motto, "To make better Indians," has 
been practically interpreted. To make 
better conditions for Indians. It was 
brought to the attention of thought- 
ful men and women that the condition of 
many of the California Indians Avas im- 
possibly bad. Many were dragging out 
existence on unirrigated land so hopelessly 
poor that, no matter how industrious they 
were, it was impossible to gain a liveli- 
hood from it. Many were perishing from 
hunger and winter cold in mountain reser- 
vations. As a result of the League's 
efforts a model reservation was secured at 
Pala for the evicted Warner Ranch In- 
dians ; and a market was opened for their 
basket industry which has preserved it 
from extinction ; and much has been done 
toward restoring to the Indians of South- 
ern California, out of the boundless lands 
that have been taken from them, enough 
tillable land on which they can gain a 
decent living by thrift and labor. 

Society of Colonial Wars — Citizens' Na- 
tii)nal I5ank Building. 

Sons of the Revolution — California So- 
ciety. Citizens' National Bank Building. 

State Societies — There is a federation 
of State societies, with headquarters at 
957 West Seventh Street. This organiza- 
tion keeps a register of people who are 
here from different States, which enables 
one from any section of the counti'^' to 
find the address of others from his home 
State or county. The secretary also keeps 
a list of the State organizations, with the 
time and place of meetings and picnics. 
Newcomers are urged to call at head- 
quarters and register, so that friends may 
find them. 

Union League Club — On the sixth, 
seventh, eighth and ninth floors of the 
Union League Building at Second and 
Ilill streets. 

University Club — Consolidated Realty 
Buildina', Sixtli and Hill streets. 

Yacht Club— South Coast Yacht Club, 
910 Wright & Collander Building; also at 
IjOS Angeles Harbor. 

Young Men's Christian Association — This 
organization has a fine building at 715-721 
South Hope Street. The object of the 



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association is the spiritual, intellectual, 
physical and social development of yount; 
men. The building contains a reading 
room, a finely equipped gymnasium, baths, 
an auditorium, and rooms which may be 
secured by members at reasonable rates. 
In the basement is an excellent cafeteria 
which is open every hour of the twenty- 
four. Evening entertainments and lectures 
are provided and educational classes are 
maintained. There is also an emploj-ment 
bureau for the benefit of the members, of 
whom there are about four thousand. 
Rooms are open to visitors from 8:30 
a. m. to 10 p. m. 

Young Men's Institute — Club house. 1028 
East Thirty-fourth Street. Meets Wed- 
nesday evenings. 

Nearly every other social and benevolent 
order is well represented by councils and 
lodges of every name and degree. 

Of the -women's clubs the JPriday Morn- 
ing Club is the oldest. The club house is 
a charming, vine-draped cloistered build- 
ing at 940 Figueroa Street, as attractive 
within as Avithout. It contains a large 
auditorium besides library, parlors, large 
central hall, dining room, etc. But the 
club, now numbering over twelve hundred 
members, has outgrown the building and 
it is planned to erect in the near future a 
larger building on the same site. Regular 
meetings of the club are held every Friday 
morning. 

Next in age is the Los Angeles Ebell 
Club, which was founded in 1894 with the 
object of 'individual development, a 
united effort toward harmony, charity, and 
that broad culture which comes through 
service to others." Dr. Adrian Ebell was 
a distinguished German scholar who, 
"realizing woman's limited opportunity 
for mental development, and the necessity 
of fitting her to cope more effectively with 
the complex forms of modern life, con- 
ceived the idea of establishing an interna- 
tional academy with headquarters at 
Berlin and tributary chapters in all parts 
of the world, for the object of developing 
feminine mentality along serious and scien- 
tific lines." The first of several chapters 
on the Pacific Coast was the Oakland 
Ebell, organized in 1876. The Los Angeles 
Ebell was modeled upon the same lines 
as this Mother Club. The membership is 
now nearly thirteen hundred. The club 
house at 1719 Figueroa Street was erected 
in 1905. It is a beautiful vine-covered 
building enclosing a central patio, with 



cloistered walk leading from the recep 
tion and dining rooms in the front of th< 
building to the large auditorium in the 
rear. Lip-stairs are rooms used by the 
various sections in their study classes. 

Cosmos Club — Meets the second, fourth 
and fifth Wednesday afternoons at Ebell 
Club IToiisc, 1719 Figueroa Street. 

Daughters of the Confederacy — Robert 
E. Lee Chapter meets first Thursday after- 
noons at Ei)ell Club House. 

Daughters of the American Revolution — 
Eschscholtzia Chai)tor iiiects first Tuesday 
of oaf'h month at Ebell Club House. 

Women's City Club — ]\Ieets for luncheon 
at 12 noon on IMondays, in Blanchard Hall, 
235 South Broadway. The luncheon is 
followed by speaking on timely topics, 
mainly of civic interest. 

Women's Press Club — The Southern 
California Women 's Press Club has its 
club home in Room 408 Chamber of 
Commerce Building, 122-134 South Broad- 
way. 

Women's Christian Temperance Union — 
Headquarters, 301 N. Broadway. 

Young Women's Christian Association — 
The administration building of the Young 
Women's Christian Association is on Hill 
Street, near Third. It is built around an 
open court, with balconies opening from 
the upper stories on the court. The floor 
of the court is occupied with tables of the 
cafeteria, which is in the basement. A 
pretty, restful library and reading room 
opens from the main hall where is the 
office and information desk. There are 
vesper services every evening, a social 
hour and frequent lectures, also classes in 
various branches. There is a swimming 
pool in the building and a gv'mnasium. 
Lessons are given in swimming and in 
physical culture. At the information desk 
a list of suitable boarding places is kept. 

The Mary Andrew^s Clark Memorial 
Home (which see) is the boarding home 
of the Y. W. C. A. 

There are many societies for those of 
foreign birth, for both men and women. 

Over-Seas Club— (British). The Los 
Angeles branch meets the first and third 
Wednesday evenings of each month at 
1327 Georgia Street. 

Imperial Order Daughters of the Em- 
pire — (British). Queen Alexandria Chap- 
ter meets at the Friday Morning Cluli 
House, 940 South Figueroa Street the firs' 
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Containing well-equipped gymnasium, baths, auditoriums and restaurant 



There is a Caledonian Club, a Slavonian, 
a Swiss, an Italian-American, and a braneli 
of the Cercle Francaise: Both Native 
Daughters and Native Sons of the Golden 
West have flourishing organizations and 
meet in Native Sons' Hall at 134 West 
Seventeenth Street. 

COASTWISE STEAMSHIP LINES— As 

jiassengers must go by steam or electric 
cars from Los Angeles to San Pedro, the 
sailing port of Los Angeles, the stations 
from whifh to leave are given. 

Independent Steamship Company — Office 
530 South Spring Street. Salt Lake R. R. 
station— steamers for San Francisco once 
in five days. 

North Pacific Steamship Company^ 
Office, 604 South Spring Street. Pacific 
Electric Station ac ttixth and Main 
sireets — steamers for San Francisco and 
Portland everv Tuesday, also steamers for 
San Francisco, with local stops. 



Pacific Coast Steamship Company — Office 
at ()24 South Spring Street. Pacific Elec- 
tric Station at Sixth and Main streets — 
for San I'rancisco and Puget Sound on 
Thursdays; for' San Francisco only on 
Sundays; for San Diego, Wednesdays and 
Saturdays. 

Pacific Navigation Company — Office, 611 
South Spring Street. Salt Lake R. R. 
Station. For San Francisco, Sundays, 
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays; for San 
Diego, Thursdays and Saturdays. 

San Francisco and Portland Steamship 
Company — Office, 611 South Spring Street. 
I'acilic Electric Station, Sixth and Main 
streets — for San Francisco and Portland 
every five days. 

COLEGROVE— A residence section of 
Los Angeles lying south of Hollywood, and 
north of Melrose Avenue. 

COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS— In educa- 
tional facilities Los Angeles stands well 
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some respects outranks other cities of the 
Pacific Coast. In the city and immediate 
vicinity there are branches of the great 
State University, the University of South- 
ern California with its sevei'al depart- 
ments, and several excellent small colleges 
doing splendid work. There are, for boys 
and girls, numerous private schools offer- 
ing varied advantages; business colleges, 
military schools, college-preparatory and 
tinisliing schools; musical, art, and dra- 
matic schools ; and technical schools of 
high rank. Tlie public schools are unsur- 
passed in equipment, in teaching force and 
in the enthusiasm of pupils. 

Occidental College occupies a ninety-acre 
campus at Eagle Rock, a beautiful loca- 
tion which is being rapidly adorned by the 
splendid buildings of "Greater Occidental" 
College. Trees and ornamental shrubs, 
planted in great numbers, are adding to 
the beauty of the place, and when all the 
buildings are completed the campus will 
be one of the most attractive in the West. 
Occidental College is a Christian co- 
educational college of the liberal arts and 
natural sciences. 

Pomona College — This college was in- 
corporated in 1887 by the General Associa- 
tion of the Congregational churches of 
Southern California. Its founders were 
largely people whose former afifiliations 
had been with New England and its in- 
stitutions, and their desire was to estab- 
lish "a Christian College of the New 
England type." The site of the college 
was originally Pomona, but later Clare- 
mont, on the Foothill Boulevard, was made 
the perma'^ent location. The campus com- 
prises one hundred acres. The institution 
is co-educational with an enrollment of 
over five hundred pupils. 

State Normal School — By the sale of the 
former normal school site at Fifth Street 
and Grand Avenue to a syndicate of local 
capitalists who agree to hold the property 
in trust until such a time as the city can 
purchase it for municipal purposes, the 
sum of $600,000 became available for 
work upon the buildings of the new normal 
school. To this the State will probably 
add whatever sum is needful for carrying 
out the designs for the splendid group of 
new buildings, ten in number. The present 
site is between the city and Hollywood, 
with a frontage on Vermont Avenue of 
1285 feet. Architecturally, the new grov;p 
of buildings with their courts, tree- 
bordered approached and sunken gardens 
will form one of the most imposing in- 



stitutions of its kind in the country. The 
style of architecture is Italian Romanesque 
to be carried out in dark red tapestry 
brick and mosaic work, with tile roofs. All 
corridors, halls and stairways are to be 
of fire-proof materials. The ten buildings 
are to be unsurpassed in equipment and 
will provide for two thousand regular 
normal students and nine hundred training 
school pupils. 

Throop College of Technology — This in- 
stitution is a college of applied sciences 
with the essential humanities. It believes in 
giving to youths all the "culture they can 
hold, but that they should first be taught 
to be useful. Throop College believes that 
this mighty empire of the Southwest de- 
mands efficient and trained builders, able 
to convert opportunity into achievement. 
The college was founded to supply this 
demand by the late Amos G. Throop. It 
was incorporatel in 1891 as the Throop 
Polytechnic Institute, the first school of 
manual arts west of Chicago. It aims to 
do for the Pacific Coast what the Massa- 
chusetts Institute of Technology does for 
the Atlantic Coast. Only high school 
graduates of approved standing are ad- 
mitted. The degree of Bachelor of Science 
is given at the end of a four-year course. 
The campus for the group of new build- 
ings is a lai'ge and beautiful grove of 
oaks and orange trees flanked by moun- 
tains, on the southeastern boundaries of 
Pasadena. The legacy of Spanish archi- 
tecture Avhich California received through 
the missions has been drawn upon by the 
architects. Low, long buildings connected 
by sunny ai'cades are to be carried out in 
modern material, reinforced concrete. 
Pasadena Hall, dedicated in 1910, is the 
central and important feature of this 
group. This building is a fine example of 
Spanish renaissance with a central dome 
to lift it above the plainer mission struc- 
tures which are to surround it. The dome 
is employed for the reference library. 
The whole librarj^ contains about six 
thousand volumes, mainly scientific. The 
college is broadly Christian in its influ- 
ence, but non-sectarian. 

The University of Southern California 
occupies a handsome group of buildings in 
the southern part of the city on Wesley 
Avenue, between Thirty-fifth and Thirty- 
seventh streets. 

Of the secondary private schools for 
boys, the Harvard Military School on 
Western Avenue; the Los Angeles Military 
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School at 205-209 North Union Street and 
Urban Military Academy at 800 South 
Alvarado Street are good examples; for 
girls the Girls' Collegiate School (Casa de 
Hosas) at Adams and Hoover streets; the 
Westlake School at 612 South Alvarado 
Street; and Hollywood Outdoor School, 
on Sunset Boulevard and May Avenue; 
and for boys and girls the Los Angeles 
Academy and Maryland School at Ninth 
and Beacon streets, near Westlake Park. 

Among the more important of the 
Catholic schools are St. Vincent's College, 
on Grand Avenue, between Eighteenth and 
Washington; St. Mary's Academy, on 
Slauson and Cypress avenues; Sacred 
Heart School at Sichel and Bakhvin 
streets ; Immaculate Heart College at 
Hollywood and the Academy of the Im- 
maculate Heart at West Pico Street and 
Kingsley Drive. 

Of the public schools of Los Angeles 
too much cannot be said in their praise. 
The city is in the vanguard of progress 
in educational ideals and offers widely 
diversified vocational training, as well as 
the more conservative school courses. 
There are eight high schools, all offering 
courses leading to the State University, 
and all accredited; but each specializing 
in particular ways and offering induce- 
ments peculiar to itself. A pupil may 
attend whichever one of these high schools 
offering the advantages he especially de- 
sires. Over twenty per cent, of the gram- 
mar school pupils pass on to the high 
schools, a large i^ercentage, the average 
elsewhere being only twelve per cent. 

CORONEL COLLECTION — See Mu- 
seums. 



COUNTRY CLUBS— See Amusements. 

COUNTY HOSPITAL— See Hospitals. 

COURT HOUSE -The County Court 
House is an impressive red sandstone 
building handsomely carved. It stands on 
Broadway Hill, north of First Street. A 
statue of Stephen M. White stands on 
the greensward before the building. 

CUSTOM OFFICE — In the Federal 
Building (postoffice) at the junction of 
Main luid Spring streets and Temple Street. 

EASTLAKE PARK— This park, consist- 
ing of about fifty acres, occupies an angle 
at the junction of Mission Road, Alhambra 
Avenue and East Main Street. It is one 
of the most popular parks in the city, both 
by reason of its own attractions of lawns, 
large shade trees, flowers, lake, pretty 
bridges, provision for children's amuse- 
ment, and because near by are the enter- 
taining and instructive zoo, the aquarium, 
the aviary and the alligator farm. Here 
are the beautiful new conservatories where 
the plants which supply the numerous city 
parks with flowers are propagated, and a 
bewildering number of beautiful blossoms 
are always to be seen. Here are spacious 
picnic gi'ounds with tables under spi-eading 
trees and swings and playgrounds for 
the children. From the rising ground at 
the eastern end of the park is a wide- 
spread view over the surrounding country. 
The trees which border the walks and 
drives, and shade the lawns, range from 
mountain pine to tropical palm. A fine 
group of date-palms is near the southern 
end of the park, also an avenue lined with 
large fan-palms. Boating on the lake is 
very popular. On Sunday afternoons a 
band furnishes excellent music. 




LOS ANGELES IS FAMED FOR ITS MAGNIFICENT APARTMENT HOUSES WITH THEIR SUPERB 
LOCATIONS. THE BRYSON OVERLOOKING SUNSET PARK IS HEREWITH SHOWN 




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ECHO PARK consists oi" about thirty 
acres on Lake Siiore Avenue, just north 
of Temple Street. Two-thirds of tlie area 
is covered by a winding hike, whose borders 
are fringed by beautiful eucalyiJtus and 
willow trees. This lake is the largest in 
any of the city parks and divides with 
liollenbeck Park popularity as a boating 
and canoeing i-esort. Echo Park Play- 
ground (see Playgrounds) is close by. 

EL C AMINO REAL— The historic high- 
way blazed out by the padres and used 
later by travelers in going from San Diego, 
the southernmost mission, north, through 
all the chain of twenty-two missions to 
Sonoma, the northernmost. The missions 
were about a day's journey apart. Among 
the relics of several of the old mission 
churches are maps made by the padres, 
or by Indians, showing portions of this 
route. There is one in the old Plaza 
Church showing the way from San Gabriel 
to Santa Barbara and in the Los Angeles 
County museum building in Exposition 
Park is another showing the route from 
San Antonio to San Rafael. The Land- 
marks Club has traced out the highway as 



far as possil)le and markeil it by iron posts 
and ^'Mission bells" with signs, stating 
the distance, from the last mission to the 
next. The name El Camino Real applied 
to streets in various towns throughout 
California, generally s[)eaking-, bears no re- 
lation to the original "King's Highway." 

ELYSIAN PARK— This park is in the 

northeastern i)art of the city, between 
North Broadway and Los Feliz Road. Tt 
is next to the largest of the city paiks 
and ranks among the largest of the 
country. It contains over five hundred 
acres of diversified landscape, valleys and 
high-ascending hills, wiiere beautiful 
scenery is unfolded as the loftier sum- 
mits are climbed. Except for the drives 
and the planting of trees, only compara- 
tively few acres are under cultivation. 
These consist mainly of a floral display 
near the Fremont Gate and flower-decor- 
ated terraces on the hillside above the 
Southern Pacific tracks. There are seven 
miles of fine drives in the park from which 
beautiful vistas of the surrounding country 
are opened to the sight. The views of 
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valleys, the near-by city and distant ocean 
are magnificent. The possibilities in the 
further development of Elysian Park are 
very great. It is an important link in the 
proposed Arroyo Seco and Silver Lake 
Parkways, and in the boulevard which is 
io lead through tliem from the mountains 
to the sea. 

EXCURSIONS— See Special Pleasure 
Trips. 

EXPOSITION PARK— This is the old 
agricultural park, and consists of 117 
acres on Vermont Avenue, between Santa 
Barbara and Santa Monica avenues. It is 
being' rapidly imjDroved by the combined 
efforts of city, eountv and state. Thei'e 
ai'e several fine buildings and others in 
I)rocess of erection. The California Expo- 
sition Building' is a handsome edifice of 
tapestry brick, laid in patterns with tile 
ornamentation. The offlees of the park 
commission are in this building. The Los 
Angeles County Historical and Art Mu- 
seum is a handsome building constructed 
of similar materials. It consists of a 
central rotunda and two wings, in one of 
which is a natural history collection, and 
in the other an historical collection (see 
Museums). Facing the Museum Building, 
across a wide stretch of lawn, is the State 
Armory. These three buildings are on 
lliree sides of a quadrangular lawn which 
is to contain a great water basin six 
hundred feet long with a fountain at each 
end. Across the road from the Exposition 
Building is a driving track which is to be 
converted into a stadium. This will be 



encircled by a track within which will be 
a forty-two-acre parade and playground, 
with provision for all forms of athletic 
sports. 

FEDERAL BUILDING— A handsome red 
sandstone building on white granite base, 
at the junction of North Main, Spring, 
New High and Temple streets. It was 
built in 1911 and cost $500,000. The 
ground floor is occupied by the postoffice, 
but the building contains also the United 
States courts, the £ustoVns and i-evenue 
offices. 

FEDERATION OF CHURCHES — See 
Church Federation. 

FEDERATION OF STATE SOCIETIES 
— See State Societies in Clubs, Societies 
and Lodges. 

FIESTAS— California, with her delight- 
ful climatic conditions, is pi'e-eminently a 
festival State. Especially is it true that 
in Southern California no month in the 
year need be Avithout its joyous celebra- 
tion. A California Celebi'ations Committee 
is discussing a series of festivals, starting 
with the San Francisco Portola celebra- 
tion in October and ending the season in 
San Diego, to include the important places 
between. Already the Pasadena Rose 
Tournament on the morning of New Year's 
Day is a well-established custom and thou- 
sands of tourists plan their coming to be 
in time for this charming event. Another 
festival and flower carnival — ''La Fiesta 
de Los Angeles" — ^lasting several days at 
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FISHING -See this sub-hend under 
Amusements. 

FORT HILI^— Tlie .lill on which the Los 
Ang-eles High Scliool stands, between 
Buena Vista Street and Grand Avenue, 
Temple Street and High. The earthworks 
of Fort Moore on this hill were constructed 
in 1847 and completed in time for raising 
the flag for the first Fourth of July cele- 
bration of Los Angeles. The fort was 
named in memory of the gallant Captain 
Moore who fell in the battle of San Pas- 
i|ual, December 6, 1846. 

GARDENA— A thriving little town on 
the "shoe-string" strip between Los An- 
tieles and San Pedro. The population is 
about two thousand. It is in a fertile 
valley where the industries of dairying, 
poultry-gTowing and berry-raising thrive. 
The Gardena Agricultural High School is 
a notable institution. 

GARVANZA— (The wild pea.) The 
northeastern section of Los Angeles, lying 
west of South Pasadena. Pasadena and 
Monte Vista avenues pass through this 
section. 

GOLF — See Amusements. 

GRIFFITH PARK— 3015 acres in ex- 
tent, is the second largest municipal park in 
America, being exceeded only by Fairmont 
Pai'k of Philadelphia, whose 3341 acres 
includes several hundred acres of river 
surface. Gi'iffith Park was given to the 
city in 1896 by Griffith J. Griffith. It lies 
north of Los Feliz Avenue, about a mile 
north of the city, with the Los Angeles 
river flowing along its eastern boundary. 
It includes the most varied and rugged 
scenery, including mountains, deep canyons 
and river bottom. From Griffith peak, an 
elevation of 1,700 feet near its western 
border, is an extensive view embracing 
three ranges of distant mountains, the 
ocean and twenty small cities and towns. 
Save for automobile roads, bridal trails 
and footpaths, the park is mostly in a 
natural state and will be maintained as 
an example of original Californian land- 
scape. There are forests of native trees 
of large size and most of the shrubs and 
flowers native to Southern California are 
growing here. Elk and deer roam the 
park and a zooJogical garden with animals 
kept under wild natural conditions. There 
is a -, public golf course, convenient 
picnic grounds in leafy canyons, with 
stoves, fresh water and plenty of shade. 
Griffith Park aviation field lies on the 
north side. The beautiful Griffith Park 
drive is described under Boulevards. The 



uniting of Griffith and Elysian parki in a 
great l)oulevard system is a part of the 
plans for the Ai-royo Seco and Silver Lake 
Parkways. El Camino Feliz, or "The 
Happy Road," is the alluring title pro- 
posed for the thirty-five mile boulevard of 
which the drives through these two parks, 
and their connecting link, will form the 
greater part. 

HACKS — The legal rates for hacks, sub- 
ject to later ordinances, are as follows: 
For use of hack for the first hour, $2.50; 
for each subsequent hour, $1.50; from city 
hotels to railroad station and from railroad 
station to city hotels, $1.00; for use of 
hack one mile, $1.00; when more than one 
person, for each one, 50 cents. For all 
detention, the same price as above by the 
hour. 

HALL OF RECORDS— A handsome 
white tile-faced building adjoining the 
County Court House, between Broadway 
and New High streets, south of Temple. 

HARBOR— See San Pedro. 

HIGHLAND PARK— The high land in 
the northeastern part of the city, south 
of Garyanza and west of South Pasadena, 
Highland Park is traversed by Monte Vista 
and Pasadena avenues. 

HOLLENBECK PARK is the play- 
ground of Boyle Heights. It consists of 
twenty acres at the intersection of east 
Fourth and Cummings streets. A well- 
shaded lawn and charming lake are its 
principal attractions. It is very popular 
for boating. Sunday afternoon band con- 
certs are attended by thousands. The 
Hollenbeck Home for the Aged is within 
a shoi't distance. 

HOLLYWOOD is the beautiful scenic- 
suburban district of Los Angeles in the 
northwestern part of the city. It is 
sheltered on the north by the Santa Monica 
mountains, up whose gently rising foot- 
hills climb picturesque villas, draped Avith 
vines and surrounded by the semi-tropical 
gardens which make Hollywood a paradise, 
winter or summer. Being in the frostless 
belt of the Cahuenga Valley, orange and 
lemon trees, bananas, tree ferns, palms, 
poinsettias, and tender vines and flowers, 
flourish to an unwonted degree, and every 
home is set in a Avilderness of beauty. 
Hollywood was platted by Mr. H. H. Wil- 
cox in 1888. Its name was given by Mv. 
Wilcox by reason of the abundant growth 
of the Toyon berry, or California holly, 
on the slopes, and in the canyons of the 
Santa Monica mountains. Miles of boule- 
vards shaded by graceful pepper trees 



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BOOTERV," LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNL\ 



"THE 



i-raverse the suburb and form parts of 
scenic automobile roads leading in every 
direction. The Cahuenga Pass Boulevard 
opens the way into the great San Fer- 
nando Valley, another leads to Laurel 
Canyon, a third winds up Lookout Moun- 
tain to the Inn. Sunset Boulevard, merg- 
ing into Hollywood Boulevard, extends 
from the Plaza in Los Angeles to Beverly 
Hills and the delightful Beverly Hills 
Hotel. Vermont Avenue, on its way 
from Griffith Park to the sea, crosses 
Hollywood near its eastern boundary. 

The homes of Hollywood range from 
bungalows to castles, through all types of 
suburban architecture, the Spanish, with 
patio and cloistered arches, perhaps pre- 
dominating. Embowering trees and vines 
and shrubbery blend them all into a beau- 
tiful whole. 

Hollywood is purely a residence suburb. 
There are no faetoi'ies to soil the air with 
smoke and there are no saloons; but there 
is every advantage to the resident in the 
way of churches, schools and library. 
Some of the church buildings are very 



pretty, and the Hollywood Carnegie Li- 
brary has a charmingly attractive exterior 
with pleasant rooms and well-stocked 
shelves within. Not far away is the 
unique de Longpre villa, the home of the 
famous flower painter and flower lover, the 
late Paul de Longpre — just a stone's throw 
further is a charming arts and crafts shop 
where some of de Longpre 's paintings are 
exhibited. 

Hollywood Polytechnic High School con- 
sists of a group of beautiful buildings in 
spacious grounds. Not only does it train 
pupils in a Avonderful variety of vocations, 
but a supplementary course admits students 
by diploma to the junior class of the State 
University. 

The Hollywood Outdoor School for girls 
is a high-class school in a garden of palms 
and tropical trees. The college of the 
Immaculate Heart is newly built at a cost 
of $160,000 and will accommodate two 
hundred girls. The Hollywood Hotel is 
one of the charming Southern California 
hotels which annually draw so many tour- 
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building' with suergestions of mission archi- 
tecture, surrounded by palms, shrubs, and 
gorgeous flowers. Its rose garden is 
famous. 

HOMES FOR THE AGED— The Ilollen- 
beck Home for the Aged, in beautiful 
grounds, is on Boule Avenue, only a short 
distance from Hollenbeck Park. 

HOSPITALS— Los Angeles is well sup- 
l)licd with hospitals and sanitariums, both 
public and private, most of them char- 
acterized by general excellence in equip- 
ment and administration, and some of 
them ranking notably high. Of these the 
great County Hospital is an institution of 
which Los Angeles is justly proud. With 
the new buildings which have been put up 
Avithin the last few years, and those in 
process of erection, all equipped with the 
latest sanitary and healing devices, it is 
now one of the leading institutions of the 
whole country. There are twenty build- 
ings, the principal ones being Class A, 
steel framed and fireproof. The grounds 
of the hospital are attractive, the rooms 
light and airy and all is made as comfort- 
able and cheerful as possible for the 
patients. From thirty to thirty-five patients 
are admitted daily, or about a thousand a 
month. There are a thousand beds, one 
hundred and twenty-five nurses, nineteen 
internes, a superintendent and two assist- 
ant superintendents. The report of the 
State Board of Charities and Corrections 
states that their committee "found noth- 
ing to criticise and had nothing to sug- 
gest." The hospital is on Mission Road, 
between Griffin and Marengo avenues. 

California Hospital — A substantial group 
of yellow brick and wooden buildings, 
standing in handsome grounds which are 
shaded by magnificent palms. The loca- 
tion is at 1414 South Hope Street. 

Good Samaritan Hospital — An impressive 
group of light gi'ay brick buildings stand- 
ing on high terraces above Orange Street, 
at the corner of Witmer. 

Sister's Hospital, on Sunset Boulevard 
and Beaudry Street — a handsome build- 
ing standing on blossom-covered terraces. 

These are among the more important 
hospitals and are all well equipped and 
well managed. A large new Children's 
Hospital near Hollywood is approaching 
completion. 

An active campaign is on foot for a 
Social Service Hospital where the fees 
shall be small enough to bring its services 



within the rec(sh of those of small means, 
yet such that the patient need not con- 
sider himself an object of charity. A 
considerable sum has been raised for this 
project. 

HOTELS — A city where tourists flock 
in such numbers every winter has natur- 
ally prepared for their accommodation. 
Los Angeles has done this so well, and 
keeps so well abreast of the annually in- 
creasing demand upon her hospitality, that 
she is now one of the leading convention 
cities and can easily take care of 100, 000 
extra people. 

The following list of hotels is published 
for the information of tourists. Under a 
special chapter elsewhere in this publi- 
cation will be found a general treatise on 
those of special distinction. 

Alexandria Hotel (Eu.), Fifth and Spring 
streets. 

Angelus Hotel (En.), Fourth and Spring. 

Alhambra Hotel (Eu.), North Broadwav. 

Alvarado Hotel (Am.), West Sixth 
Street. 

Auditorium Hotel (Eu.), Corner Fifth 
and Olive streets. 

Baltimore Hotel (Am.), Fifth Street and 
Los Angeles. 

Hotel Clark (Eu.), Broadway, between 
Fourth and Fifth. 

Hotel Congress (Eu.), Eighth and Flower 
streets. 

Hotel Cordova (Eu.), corner Eighth and 
Figueroa streets. 

Hotel Fremont (Am.), Fourth and Olive 
streets. 

Gates Hotel (Eu.), Sixth and Figueroa 
streets. 

Hayward Hotel (Eu.), corner Sixth and 
Spring streets. 

Hollenbeck Hotel (Eu.), Second and 
Spring streets. 

Hotel Hollywood (Am.), Hollywood. 

King Edward Hotel (Eu.). Fifth Street, 
between Main and Los Angeles. 

Lankershim Hotel (Eu.), Broadway at 
Seventh Street. 

Hotel Leighton (Am.), West Sixth Street. 
Westlake district. 

Natick House (Eu.), First at Main 
Street. 

New Broadway Hotel (Eu.), 205 Norfli 
Bi-oadwav. 

Occidental Hotel (Eu.), at 428 S. Hill 
Street, through to 428 S. Broadway. 

Hotel Oviatt (Eu.), Pico and Flower 
streets. 

Hotel Stowell (I'^u.). S. S*[)ring, between 
Fourth and Fifth sti'eets. 



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FAMOUS MARBLE LOBBY, HOTEL ALEXANDRL\ 



Rosslyn Hotel (Eu. and Am.), 443 S. 
Main Street. 

Hotel Sherman (Eu.), 314 West Fourth 
Street. 

Hotel Stillwell (Eu.), 838 S. Grand 
Avenue. 

Van Nuys Hotel (Eu.), Fourth and Main 
streets. 

The Westminster (Eu.), Fourth and 
Main streets. 

Of course there are many more excellent 
hotels throughout the city. Only a small 
proportion have been named. Apartment 
hotels abound. Some of the finest are the 
Bryson on Wilshire Boulevard and Ram- 
part Street, the Rampart Apartments on 
Sixth and Rampart streets and the Eng- 
strom at 623 West Fifth Street. 

INFORMATION BUREAUS— In the 

matter of information bureaus the business 
concerns of Los Angeles have provided 
well for the strangers within her gates. 



The Peck-Judah Company, which has of- 
fices in all the Pacific Coast cities, main- 
tains a bureau in Los Angeles at 623 
Spring Street. Here are circulars relating 
to all excursions, railroad and steamboat 
time-tables, and a courteous attendant to 
answer questions and give directions. 

In the Pacific Electric Building, at Sixth 
and Main streets, is a large information 
bureau; there is another at the Hill Street 
station of the Pacific Electric, near Fourth 
Street; one in the Times Building at 
Broadway and First Street; one in the 
Alexandria Hotel, and one in the Examiner 
Building on Broadway; also one in the 
Security Trust and Savings Bank at Fifth 
and Spring streets, one in the Germnn- 
Amei'ican Bank at Fourth and Spring 
streets, and one in the Chamber of Com- 
merce. 

LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE— Thirty- 
four degrees north latitude and one hun- 
dred and eighteen degrees fifteen minutes 
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LEARNED SOCIETIES- -The principal 
learned societies of Los Angeles are as 
follows: 

The Historical Society of Southern Cali- 
fornia, with rooms in the Los Angeles 
County Historical and Art Museum in 
Exjiosition Park. 

Los Angeles Society of the Archaeolo- 
gical Institute of America, wliich is de- 
voted exclusively to the furthering of in- 
terest in archaeological researches in Pales- 
tine, Egypt, Greece, Rome and China. 
The office of the society is at 400 Ham- 
burger Building. 

The Southern California Academy of 
Sciences, founded in 1891 as the Southern 
California Science Association, and in- 
corporated under its present name in 1902. 
There are nearly two hundred members 
and fellows. It has a library of 2000 
books and pamphlets in room 625 San 
Fernando Building at Fourth Street and 
Main. This is soon to be moved to the 
Historical and Art Museum in Exposition 
Park. 

The Southwest Society — This is the most 
important of Los Angeles' learned socie- 
ties. It was founded in 1903, mainly 
through the efforts of Dr. Charles F. 
Lummis, as a branch of the Archaeological 
Institute of America. During its compara- 
tively short life it has achieved results far 
in advance of similar societies four times 
its own age. It was the first of similar 
societies west of Wisconsin and the first 
to do actual scientific work. It has nearly 
twice as many members as the thirty-one- 
year-old Boston Society and nearly three 
times as many as the twenty-six-year-old 
New York Society. The present member- 
ship is nearly five hundred. The primary 
object of the society was the establish- 
ment and maintenance of the Southwest 
Museum for the preservation of historic 
and scientific relics pertaining to the life 
of the Southwest during prehistoric, In- 
dian, Spanish, and eax'ly American periods. 
The Southwest Museum was incorporated 
in 1907 (see Museums). The society has 
purchased, and acquired by gift, many 
valuable collections. Through the gener- 
osity of the president of the society, Mr. 
M. A. Hamburgei', the collections have 
been housed in the Hamburger Building, 
where they have been scientifically classi- 
fied and catalogued, and where they are 
yearly visited by thousands. This collec- 
tion is now housed in the beautiful museum 
building on Musevim Hill. 



LIBRARIES— The Los Angeles Free 
Public Liljrary is by far the largest in the 
city, though there are many others, techni- 
cal, school and foreign libraries, ranging 
in size from a few score volumes to sev- 
eral thousand. Books before buildings has 
been the policy of the public library. It 
was established in 1872 and became a free 
library in 1891. It now numbers 203,600 
volumes. The library is especially rich in 
the early history of the Southwest and in 
translations of Spanish diaries and reports 
relating to that period. 

In home circulation the library ranks 
third in the United States. It is five per 
volume, or over a million a year. About 
half are distributed from the main library, 
and half from the branches and other dis- 
tributing points at school houses, play- 
grounds and factories. A scientific and 
technical department in charge of a spe- 
cialist is a part of the service of the ref- 
erence room, and has proved a great aid 
to artisans, engineers and specialists in all 
branches of pure and applied science. 

The Juvenile section contains over 15,000 
carefully selected volumes for boys and 
girls from the Mother Goose age up. 
Books on practical subjects for boys and 
girls, such as cai-pentry, electricity, metal- 
working, housekeeping and needlework 
have a surprisingly large circulation. 

In the periodical department 1100 maga- 
zines and newspapers ai'e received, cover- 
ing every department of human interest, 
from poultry and bee journals to the 
Journal of Psychical Research. 

The main library is in its new quarters 
in the Metropolitan Building at Fifth and 
Broadway. A public library building is a 
part of the group planned for the improve- 
ment of Normal School Hill. The library 
has forty-one branches and distributing 
points, of which twenty-two have reading 
rooms. Two branches are in Carnegie 
buildings which the library owns. They 
are at San Pedro and Hollywood. 

County Library — The Los Angeles 
County Free Library is on the tenth floor 
of the Hall of Records, North Broadway 
and Franklin streets. 

Law Libraries — Los Angeles County 
Law Library, seventh floor, Hall of Rec- 
ords, Broadway and Franklin Street — 23,- 
000 volumes; open to the public week 
days, 8:30 a. m. to 10 p. m. ; Sundays, 9 
to 1. There is an Edison dictating ma- 
chine here for the use of lawyers. 



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EXPOSITION PARK 

Los Angeles' greatest playground, flanked by the State Exposition lUtilding, the State Armory and the 
domed County Museum of History, Science and Art 



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District Court of Appeals Library— On 

(lie tenth Hour o£ tlio Intei'national Bank 
Builditig — 6,516 voliuncs. Open 9 a. m. to 
5 p. ni. 

United States Circuit Court Library — 
Tajo Building, 307 West First Street— 207 
volumes. For use of judges and court of- 
licials onl}'. 

Medical Library — Barlow ]\Iedical Li- 
brary, 742 Buena Vista Street — 3,373 vol- 
umes. Two hundred medical journals are 
regularly received, forty of them foreign. 
Free to all professional men and students. 
Open daily, except Sunday and four holi- 
days, from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. 

Southwest Society of the Archaeological 
Institute of America, and Southwest Mu- 
seum, incorporated — Formerly in the 
Hamburger Building, West Eighth Street 
and Broadway, but is now located in 
the new Museum Building on Museum Hill, 
Avenue Forty-six. This library covers the 
^archaeology and history of California and 
the Southwest. It includes two incom- 
parable collections, the Munk Library of 
Arizoniana, and the complete historical, 
scientific and philological library of Dr. 
Charles F. Lummis, the founder emeritus 
of the Southwest Museum (which see). 
The Munk Library was collected by Dr. 
J. A. Munk, founder of the Eclectic Col- 
lege of Medicine of Los Angeles. For 
nearly thirty years he counted neither 
time nor cost in his determination to 
gather evei'y thing relating to Arizona. 
Naturally, the library includes also works 
on California and New Mexico as all these 
were once a part of the same territory. 
It numbers some six thousand books, maps, 
monographs, magazines, atlases and news- 
papers. Ethnology, Archaeology, Ornith- 
ology, Geology, Botany, Mining, Forestry, 
all are represented and even poetry and 
fiction. Here is every Arizonian guide 
book, from the earliest published in 1849 
to the latest railroad pamphlet. 

The Lummis Library contains about .5,000 
items, including printed books, scrap-books, 
manuscripts, parchments, pamphlets, and 
autographs. It is the most important col- 
lection of Spanish Americana on the Pa- 
cific Coast and covers every item of real 
value to the historian pertaining to Cali- 
fornia and the Southwest and countries 
related thereto. The most valuable item, 
indeed the most valuable piece of Ameri- 
cana concerning the Southwest, is a per- 
fect copy of Benavides, the original 



Spanish edition, of which only seven 
copies are known to exist. While this 
treasure is a part of the Lummis collec- 
tion, together with the historic cruet men- 
tioned by Benavides in this histoi'y of 
New Mexico, in the Munk Library, is a 
copy of an almost equally scarce French 
edition, printed a year later, in 1631. 

Modern books on the West are included, 
all enriched by annotations and autograph 
letters. Autographed volumes form an- 
other class of treasures. 

The rooms of the Southwest Society and 
Southwest Museum are open daily from 
2 to 4 p. m. 

LODGES — See Clubs, Societies and 
Lodges. 

LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN— One of Holly- 
wood's natural attractions from which the 
views are magnificent by day or night. 
The vision sweeps a wide expanse of 
ocean, plain, mountain and sky and at 
night the scene is glorified by the myriad 
twinkling, gleaming lights of Los Angeles, 
shining far below. Attractive winding 
walks and automobile drives lead up the 
mountain to the inn. 

LOS ANGELES' NAME— The names 
bestowed by the early Spaniards when they 
christened a new settlement were uni- 
versally picturesque and usually pious, but 
to the American mind often too long. 
Common usage has shortened many of 
them, but usually the gain in time has 
been at the expense of beauty and sig- 
nificance. Twelve different titles of this 
city have been noted among early writers. 

Father Serra called it La Porciuncula 
(the Little Portion) from the river which 
had been so named by Portola's expedition 
in 1769, in honor of the Porciuncula, or 
little chapel of St. Francis in the Church 
of our Lady of the Angels near Assisi. 
Father Palou called it Pueblo de Nuestra 
Senora de Los Angeles de Porciuncula 
(Town of our Lady of the Angels of 
Porciuncula). Other titles were El Pueblo 
de Santa Maria de Los Angeles, El Pueblo 
de Razon (Town of the Intelligent), Pueblo 
de Maria Santissima de Los Angeles (Town 
of the Most Holy Mary of the Angels), 
Pueblo de Los Angeles. Pueblo de Nuestra 
Senora de Los Angeles, Pueblo de la 
Reina de Los Angeles (Town of the Queen 
of the Angels) , Pueblo de la Reina de 
Los Angeles de Porciuncula, Pueblo de la 
Porciuncula, Nuestra Senora Reina de 
Los Angeles, and Ciudad (City) de la 
Reina de Los Angeles. 



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POPULATION— OUR GROWTH 

War 1900 1910 1911 (est.) 

Los Angeles City 102,479 319.198 359,000 

County 170,298 504,131 554,000 

Los Angeles is a race, not a race suicide 



1912 (est.) 1913 (est.) 
427.000 500,000 

630,000 725, OUO 



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Los Angeles is now the s:enerally ac- 
cepted term. But where the Spaniards 
had twelve variations in nomenclature, 
Americans have twelve in pronunciation, 
"twelve distinct mutilations of the name 
of our city are current within it," Dr. 
Tjummis says. Hopins^- to correct this abuse 
lie adds this rhyme: 

"Our Lady 

Would remind you, 
Please! 
Her name is NOT 

* ' Lost Angle Lees, ' ' 
Nor Angle anything whatever! 
She trusts her Friends will be so clever 
To share her fit historic pride. 
The ''G" shall not be jellified! 
"0" long, "G" hard, and rhyme with 

' ' Yes"^' '— 
And all about 

Loce Ang-el-ess." 

LOS ANGELES RAILROAD— Probably 

no city of its size in the United States is 
better served in the matter of street rail- 
ways than Los Angeles. Within the city 
limits are over three hundred and fifty 
miles of single track, all electric. Con- 
ductors are uniformly courteous, ready 
with information, and accustomed to 
answering the questions of strangers. 

MANUFACTURING— There are twenty- 
five hundred manufacturing establishments 
in Los Angeles, Avhich turn out products 
to the value of one hundred million dollars 
annually. The openings for manufacturing 
enterprises are many and varied. Cheap 
fuel from the oil-wells of Southern Cali- 
fornia, cheap power and comparative free- 
dom from labor troubles are advantages 
enjoyed by Los Angeles manufacturers. 
Their products range from aeroplanes and 
automobiles to x-ray apparatus, yeast and 
zinc. 

MARY ANDREWS CLARK MEMO- 
RIAL HOME— This beautiful building at 
336 Loma Drive was built by Hon. William 
A. Clark as a memorial to his mother, 
Mary Andrews Clark, and given to the 
Young Women's Christian Association as 
a boarding home for "young women who 
work for a living." It is a proviso of 
the gift that it must be self-supporting. 

The home is a striking French chateau- 
like building on a commanding height near 
Crown Hill. Its situation affords mag- 
nificent views in all directions. 



MINES AND MINING— Los Angeles is 
the center of a numlx'r of rich mineral 
fields of Southern California. Gold and 
borax are the chief products, e.xchisive of 
petroleum and asphaltum. Other mineral 
products are silver, clay, gypsum, granite, 
cement and lime, besides numerous gems. 
In Southern California are found many 
varieties of tourmalines, aquamarines, 
hyacinths, kunzites, pink beryls, topaz and 
garnets. California tourmalines are especi- 
ally fine. It was near the borders of Los 
Angeles and Ventura counties that gold 
was first discovered in California, during 
tlie mission era, long before Marshall 's 
discovery at Sutter's Mill. Some gold is 
still taken out in the same region. Los 
Angeles is not only the natural head- 
quarters for the mining fields of Southern 
California but also for the mining regions 
of Lower California, Sonor^ and Arizona, 
and the rich territory of Southern Utah 
and Nevada has been opened to the world 
by the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt 
Lake Railway. 

MISSION CHURCH— See Church of 
Our Lady of the Angels. 

MISSION PLAY— What the Passion 
Play is to Oberammergau, the Mission 
Play, by John S. McGroarty, is destined 
to be to Los Angeles and San Gabriel. 
During its second season, 1912-13, it had 
a continuous run from December to July, 
with two performances every day in the 
week except Monday. ^ The unique theater 
built for this play is in the quaint little 
village of San Gabriel. It is only a forty- 
minute electric car-ride from Los Angeles, 
but the traveler finds that he has been 
carried back thrice forty years in time 
when he alights from the train and his 
eyes fall on the oft-pictured campanile and 
brown, buttressed walls of San Gabriel 
Church, and on the old adobe houses down 
the road, freshly whitewashed, perhaps, 
but whose deep doorways and recessed 
windows testify to their age. 

The Mission Playhouse is just across 
the way from the church, a simple struc- 
tui'e, harmonious in outline with mission 
architecture. Entering the enclosure the 
King's Highway attracts the attention 
first. Here, surrounding the playhouse, is 
a succession of historically correct minia- 
ture reproductions of the mission churches, 
the whole chain from San Diego to So- 
noma. The Mission Play orchestra renders 
sweet music in the playhouse garden be- 
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HOME OF THE MISSION PLAY 
This unique theatre is in the quaint village of San Gabriel, a forty-minute electric car ride from Los Angeles 



bright California sunshine gilds this minia- 
ture Camino Real for the modern throng 
that passes around it, just as in by-gone 
days it glorified for the padres their weary 
marches along the real King's Highway, 
The tolling of the mission bell which hangs 
over the pulpit within calls the people to 
their seats. A brown-robed Franciscan 
mounts the pulpit stairs and announces the 
play, and soon the audience is borne back- 
ward in time to the shores of False Bay 
at San Diego in 1769, and the play has 
begun. We do not watch the scenes; we 
live them, side by side with the padres, 
the neophytes and the early Californians. 
From the "Visions of the Past," so 
exquisitely portrayed, which form the 
prologue, to the last pathetic scene at 
Capistrano, interest does not flag for an 
instant. The play centers around the life 
and character of Father Serra, that strong, 
sweet soul, whose faith, though all un- 
knowing to himself, founded cities, and 
whose spirit, we may believe, still broods 
over the Land of his Desire. From be- 
ginning to the end of the play there is not 
one false note. The scenery is exquisitely 
contrived and brought out, the cast in- 
cludes descendants of old Spanish families, 
Mexicans and Indians. The play is full of 
the inevitable pathos which attaches to 
the founding of the missions under infinite 



difficulties, and to their downfall through 
the covetousness and greed of outsiders, 
but it is by no means wholly sad. Through 
a thousand discouragements, the unwaver- 
ing faith of Father Serra and his associ- 
ates triumphed in the end, and the second 
act shows the missions in the height of 
their success. Indian and Spanish dancing 
and singing depict the lighter side of 
those best days of the missions. 

The educative value of this play is very 
great. The more remotely these days of 
the padres slip into the past, the more 
need that they should be revived to our 
imaginations, that their lessons may not be 
forgotten by us, nor by our children. This 
noble resuscitation, so perfect in historic 
detail, renders a great service to this and 
to future generations. 

MOUNTAINS — Two ranges of mountains 
run the length of California, known in 
general as the Coast Range and the 
Sierras. The Coast Range is the more 
broken of the two and in different locali- 
ties the short ranges which form it bear 
different names. Los Angeles is in the 
midst of these broken ranges of Soutnern 
California. To the east are the San 
Gabriel mountains; to the north the short 
Verdugo range and beyond the Sierra 
Madres; to the northwest the low Santa 
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range sti'e^^chos further northwest through 
Ventura County. Southeast are the Santa 
Ana mountains and further east the h>nger 
snow-crowned San Bernardino range. Each 
range lias its lofty peaks, San Antonio, 
disrespectfully known as "Old Baldy," is 
the highest peak of the Sierra Madre 
range. Two other well-known peaks of 
this range are Mount Wilson and Mount 
Lowe. These are desei'ibed under Special 
Pleasure Trips. San Oorgonio is a noted 
peak of the San Bernardino range. 

MUSEUMS — Los Angeles has three mu- 
seums of great interest and educational 
xnlue: the Coronel Collection in the build- 
ing on Museum Hill at Marmion Way, the 
Museum of History, Science and Ai't in the 
Los Angeles County Historical and Art 
IVIuseum Building in Exposition Park, and 
the Southwest Museum formei'ly in the 
Hamburger Building but now at Marmion 
Wav and Avenue Forty-six. 

Coronel Collection — It was a happy cir- 
cumstance which preserved for Los Angeles 
this collection, a part of which is so inti- 
mately connected with her early history. 

Don Antonio Franco Coronel came to Los 
Angeles in 1834. He was a methodical 
man, educated and possessing a sense of 
historic values. He made collections of 
Toltec, Aztec and later Mexican pottery; 
of Mexican and Indian handicraft; mis- 
sion relics; articles of dress worn by 
Spanish and Mexican men and women of 
the early days in California, such as re- 
bosas, serapes, sombreros, slippers and 
high, carved tortoise-shell combs; house- 
hold furnishings, and many objects illus- 
trative of early times. He had a series 
of paintings made of himself and his 
young and beautiful Avife, in Mexican cos- 
tumes and enacting the scenes of Mexican 
life which were fast being buried under 
the rapidly gi-owing American life of the 
City of the Angels. He collected, or had 
made, groups of tiny wax figures depicting 
the various household and out-of-door 
activities of the days of the Spanish and 
Mexican regimes. He and his wife made 
a model of the Mission San Luis Rey de 
Francia as it was in the days of its glory. 
That, too, is in the collection, as well as 
painted portraits, daguerreotypes, photo- 
graphs, and autograph letters of great 
interest. 

After Don Antonio's death his wife, fol- 
lowing his wishes, gave the collection to the 
Chamber of Commerce, which has since 
maintained it. It is now being housed at 



Exposition Park and should be seen when 
visiting this interesting museum. 

Museum of History, Science and Art — 
This museum, in the Museum Building in 
Exposition Park, consists of various collec- 
tions which have been, or are to be, 
brought together under one roof, the valu- 
able collections of the Historical Society, 
of the Academy of Sciences, of the Cooper 
Ornithological Society and of the Art 
League of Los Angeles, besides a number 
of private collections. 

The natural history collections are in the 
wing at the left of the central rotunda of 
the Museum Building. Here are birds, 
their nests, and eggs, butterflies, shells, 
etc. In the opposite wing is the historical 
collection. Many of the articles have been 
loaned by the Native Sons of the Golden 
West. Here are Spanish, Mexican and In- 
dian historical relics, portraits, autographs, 
letters from eminent men, pictures of Los 
Angeles in 1854 and in 1809 and a plan 
of the roads from mission to mission, from 
San Rafael south to San Antonio. Here 
ai-e china, glassware, and other household 
furnishings used in the early Spanish 
homes of Los Angeles; high tortoise-shell 
combs and high-heeled satin slippers which 
adorn sonoras and senoritas of early days, 
and many other interesting articles with 
their histories attached. 

The Southwest Museum — This museum 
was founded by the Southwest Society of 
the Archaeological Institute of America and 
incorporated in December, 1907 "to build 
and maintain in Los Angeles a free public 
Museum of History, Science and Ai't, for 
the gi'eat Southwest, on a scale commensur- 
ate with the community it serves." A 
magnificent site Avas secured on a hill (now 
called Museum Hill) at the head of Ave- 
nue Forty-six, overlooking Sycamore Gi'ove. 
Plans have been prepared for a splendid 
group of buildings, perfectly adapted to 
the site and to their purpose. A be- 
quest of $50,000 by the late Mrs. Carrie 
M. Jones made possible the first build- 
ing, to be called the Carrie M. Jones 
Memorial Hall. On November 16, 1912, 
ground was broken for this building by 
Bishop Thomas J. Conaty. Above him 
waved the flag that Fremont flung to the 
breeze on the crest of the Rocky mountains 
in 1846. The daughter of General Fremont 
lowered the flag when the ceremonies were 
over. This building was completed for 
occupancy in 1914 and to it were re- 
moved the collections and library which 





POSTOFFICE RECEIPTS 

Uncle Sam's verdict in the case of Los Angeles vs. the world 

Our growth— 1909, $1,276,664.07; 1910, $1,476,941.52; 1911, $1,646,601.84 
1912, $1,906,518.68; 1913, $2,114,049.93 



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through the generosity of Mr. M. A. Ham- 

hurs'or, occupied rooms in the Ilambui'gcr 
Building. The collections include Indian 
relics and specimens of their varied handi- 
crafts; mission relics, many connected with 
Father Serra; Fremont relics; folk-song 
preserved by phonogi-aph; the Caballeria 
collection of old paintings; the IngersoU 
collection of steel engravings from photo- 
graphs of the most important Spanish and 
American women who figured in the early 
development of the State; fossil remains 
and petrifactions; historical documents; 
and the two g-reat gifts to the Museum 
of the Munk Library of Arizoniana and 
the Lummis Library and collections. The 
two libraries have been described under 
Libraries. The remainder of the Lummis 
gift includes paintings by noted artists, 
and valuable historical and anthropological 
collections from Equador, Peru and Bolivia. 
The museum is most fortunate in its 
distinguished curator, Mr. Hector Alliot. 

MUSICAL LOS ANGELES— Los Ange- 
les is justly noted as a musical center. It 
is a rare day in Los Angeles when there 
is not a concert of more or less im- 
portance. Four of the high schools have 
orchestras and in the grade schools there 
are over 400 pupils playing in school 
orchestras. 

There are a number of adult orchestras 
of which the Los Angeles Symphony 
Orchestra is noteworthy. Los Angeles has 
twenty bands and as many singing clubs 
and chorus societies. There are about 500 
music teachers and over 800 professional 
musicians. Popular priced grand opera 
runs for eight weeks each year in Los 
Angeles. Comic opera for twenty-four 
weeks, and the Chicago Grand Opera Com- 
pany give here from eight to sixteen per- 
formances each season. Blanehard Hall 
Studio Building at 235 Broadway is de- 
voted exclusively to music, art and science 
and is one of the best equipped buildings 
for the encouragement of music and art in 
the United States. It contains four halls, 
Blanehard Hall with a seating capacity of 
1,000, Symphony Hall with a capacity of 
450, Art"^ Hall, holding 250 and Music Hall, 
holding 150. There are a number of other 
spacious concert halls in the city and sev- 
eral large auditoriums. 

NEWSPAPERS— See Periodicals. 

OIL WELLS— The petroleum and as- 

phaltum supply of Southern California is 

enormously abundant. California produces, 

not only more oil than any other State in 



the Union, but half as much again ad 
Oklahoma, the second greatest producer. 
Omitting the rest of the United States, 
California produced in 1911 more oil than 
any other country, and if Russia and the 
rest of the United States are omitted, more 
than all the other oil-producing countries 
(■(.riibined. During 1914 uiore than 102,000- 
000 barrels was the yield. All the oil wells 
are in the southern part of the State. 
Petroleum and asphaltum were discovered 
here by the first Spanish settlers. They 
made no use of the former but asphaltum 
was frequently used, after melting, as 
roofing for their adobe houses. Not much 
attempt was made at oil development until 
after the close of the Civil Wai', but An- 
dres Pico, in the early fifties, refined a 
small amount in the San Fernando Valley. 
In 1892 E. L. Doheny drilled his first 
well in the city of Los Angeles. Within 
four years there were 700. There are now 
three times that number. In the north- 
western part of the city beautiful lawns 
and gardens have been dotted thickly by 
oil derricks, averaging sixty-five feet in 
height. The wells were such good pro- 
ducers that it was a great temptation to 
multiply them until that portion of the 
city resembles a curious sort of forest 
composed of cubist trees. It is no longer 
jiermitted to sink new wells within the 
city limits, but those which are still pro- 
ducing may be operated. A pipe line from 
the Kern County petroleum fields delivers 
oil to loading stations on the breakwater 
of Los Angeles harbor. 

It is this cheap fuel which has stimu- 
lated manufacturing in Southern Cali- 
fornia and having proved its worth it is 
now largely used by Western railroads, 
by the United States Navy, and for smelt- 
ing purposes. 

OLD MISSION CHURCH— See Church 
of Our Lady of the Angels. 

OSTRICH FARMS— Two ostrich farms 
in the vicinity of Los Angeles are found 
exceedingly interesting to tourists and are 
visited by many thousands annually. 

The Cawston Ostrich Farm in South 
Pasadena may be seen on the automobile 
trip to Pasadena or on the Pacific Electric 
Old Mission Trolley Trip. It is also an 
easy matter to go there by street car. Ad- 
mission is twenty-five cents. The history 
of this pioneer enterprise from the first 
importation of fifty-two birds from Natal, 
Africa, in 1886 to the "farm" in its 
present state is most interesting. A ship 
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over this first lot. VAght died en route. 
Most of tlie present American ostrich 
population is descended from the forty- 
four which were safely landed at Galves- 
ton, Texas. The Natal Government has 
since imposed an almost prohibitive duty 
upon all ostriches taken from the land, 
but Mr. Cawston has since imported a 
few wild birds from the Nubian desert. 
At this farm the mated birds build their 
nests, lay their eggs and hatch their 
young. "incubators are also employed. 
The young birds are reared elsewhere. 
The process of removing the feathers from 
the birds and much other interesting in- 
formation is imparted to visitors by guides 
and attendants. The egg of the ostrich 
weighs three pounds. When hatched the 
birds are about the size of frving chickens. 
At full size they weigh three hundred 
pounds and stand eight feet high. They 
live to about seventy years of age. They 
are the fastest runners among living 
things, twenty-five miles an hour being 
their usual rate. Their sight is very keen. 

Besides the ostriches there are many 
other things of interest here, an aviary of 
rare birds, the show-rooms where are dis- 
played beautiful plumes of every form 
and color, and a Japanese tea-house in the 
garden where refreshing afternoon tea is 
served. 

The Los Angeles Ostrich Farm is at 3609 
I\Iission Road, and may be seen on the 
"Seeing Los Angeles" trip of the Pacific 
Electric, or by an ordinary street car-ride. 
Admission twenty-five cents for the ordi- 
nary tourist, but the price of the ''Seeing 
Los* Angeles" trip includes admission to 
the farm. 

PACIFIC ELECTRIC RAILROAD— The 
interurban electric railroads radiating in 
every direction from Los Angeles all be- 
long" to the Pacific Electric system. Taken 
together Avith the system within the city, 
they constitute one of the most complete 
and" best equipped electric railway systems 
in the United States. The interurban roads 
aggregate 900 miles of single track. Almost 
all are double track and some have four 
tracks. There are lines to Santa Monica, 
Redondo Beach and San Pedro Harbor by 
two different routes, to all the other 
beaches, to Pasadena by two routes, to 
Altadena, Alhambra and San Gabriel, 
Monrovia, Whittier, Azusa, Glendora, 
Sierra Madre, Covina, La Habra, Glendale, 
Burbank, Lankershim, Van Nuys, Fernan- 
do, Owensmouth, Santa Ana and Pomona. 
For all these lines over 6,000 trains are 



operated daily. The Pacific Electric main- 
tains a club-house for the use of its men, 
with pool and billiard tables, hot and cold 
baths and other provision for their com- 
fort and pleasure. The number of men 
thus emjiloyod in and about the city is 
8,000. 

The main Pacific Electric station is in 
a large building owned by the company 
on the corner of Sixth and Main streets. 
From this building interurban trains are 
leaving on two levels in constant succes- 
sion. On the main floor are waiting 
rooms, dining rooms, and lunch counter, 
information bureau, news stand and 
ticket offices. Tliere is another Pacific 
Electric station on Hill Street, near 
Fourth. 

PARKS — There are in Los Angeles 
twenty-four named parks ranging in size 
from Griffith Park, 3015 acres, and next 
to the largest municipal park in the 
country, to some even smaller than the 
historic Plaza on North Main and Mar- 
chessault streets. The most important of 
these parks, besides those mentioned 
above are Westlake and Eastlake parks, 
Elysian Park, Hollenbeck and Echo parks. 
Prospect Park, Central Park, Exposition 
Park, Sycamore Grove and Sunset and 
South parks. These are all described 
under their respective heads. 

Some of the smaller parks are as fol- 
lows: Dixon Park, Ela Park, Everett 
Park, Marion Park, Occidental, St. 
James, Terrace and Hazard parks, and 
Vermont Square. In all the park area 
of the city is 3896 acres, including some 
unnamed triangles at street intersections. 

PERIODICALS— The first newspaper of 
Los Angeles appeared on May 17th, 1851, 
and was called The Los Angeles Star. 
There are now nearly seventy periodicals 
published in at least seven different lan- 
guages besides English. They include 
Chinese and Japanese, Gei-man, French, 
Italian, Spanish and Basque newspapers, 
some of them dailies. The most import- 
ant morning papers are Tlie Times, The 
Los Angeles Tribune and The Los An- 
geles Examiner; the important evening 
papers are The Evening Express, The 
Evening Herald and The Evening Record. 
The Times is published in its own hand- 
some new building at First Street and 
Broadway, which replaces the one de- 
stroyed by the dastardly outrage of Oc- 
tober 1, 1910, in wliieh twenty-two inno- 
cent lives were sacrificed. The Examiner 
is published in its own building, the larg- 



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est plant of its kind devoted exclusively 
to the publication of a newspaper west 
of Chicago. Other important publica- 
tions besides the dailies are: The B'nai 
B'rith Messenger, the Builder and Con- 
tractor, the California Cultivator, the 
California Independent, the California 
Outlook, the California Voice, the Com- 
mercial Bulletin, the Graphic, the Little 
Farms Magazine, the Oil Age, Out West, 
the Rounder, Sud-California Post (Ger- 
man), and the West Coast Magazine, 
Tlie editor of Out West is Dr. George 
Wharton James, author of ''In and Out 
the Old Missions," "Ramona's Coun- 
try," and many other books of the South- 
west, and lecturer on every phase and 
aspect of California life. 

Rancho La Brea — From asphalt i3its lo- 
cated on Wilshire Boulevard, some seven 
miles west of Los Angeles, have been taken 
about one hundred species of prehistoric 
birds and animals, species which roamed 
in Southern California a hundred thousand 
years ago. Mounted skeletons of the im- 



perial elephant, the largest of the probis- 
cidae, standing 131/2 feet high, with tusks 
111/2 feet long; the mastodon; giant ground 
sloth ; ancient ox and horse ; a camel, much 
like the llama of South America, but four 
times as large; the dire wolf and sabre- 
toothed tiger which, owing to their great 
numbers, must have been a formidable 
enemy to the herds of herbivorous animals 
which roamed in California in pleistocene 
times. This unique display of mounted 
skeletons may be seen at Exposition Park. 

PLAYGROUNDS — Los Angeles is 
abreast of the most progressive cities in 
the matter of public playgrounds. A 
Playground Commission is a part of the 
city government. Seven recreation cen- 
ters are permanent institutions .in dif- 
ferent parts of the city and the commis- 
sion manages in addition nine vacation 
centers during the summer, taking over 
for this purpose some of the school 
grounds. Besides this some of the public 
schools maintain playgrounds with a 
trained teacher. 




-MUSEUM 01' HISTORY, SCIENCE AND AI^T, EXPOSITION PARK 
(I) American Mastodon, (2) Imperial Elepliant, (3) Giant Ground Sloth, (4) Ancient Ox 



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WADING POOL— ECHO PARK PLAYGROUND 



The three older playgrounds are the 
Violet Street grounds at 2017 Violet 
Street; Echo Park grounds at 1620 Belle- 
vue, a part of Echo Park, and the Slau- 
son playground at 5739 Fortuna Street. 
Each of these has a club house, a wading- 
pool, sand coui-ts, swings, seats under 
vine-covered pergolas, trees and flowers. 
The club house of the Slauson ground 
contains a double bowling alley. 

Recreation Center is at 1546 St. John 
Street. There is a club house here also, 
and full equipment for children's sports. 
Hazard and Downey playgrounds were 
opened in 1911. The former consists of 
eleven acres well equipped for out-door 
sports requiring space, with a convenient 
club house for indoor activities. This 
playground has the advantage of adjoin- 
ing twenty-five acres of rolling park 
land. 

The Downey ground consists of three 
acres containing a ball field and play 
apparatus, with a pretty little field house. 



The club houses all contain a small 
auditorium or meeting room, showers, 
dressing rooms and store rooms. They 
are provided with dishes and gas stoves, 
so that refreshments can be served and 
all of them are centers for neighborhood 
clubs and meetings, young ladies', moth- 
ers' and parents' clubs, young men's city 
clubs, dramatic, swimming and athletic 
clubs, cooking, sewing and gymnastic 
classes, boys' bands and orchesti-as. The 
club houses are also used for social 
dances, properly supervised, and for other 
evening parties, lectures and entertain- 
ments. 

The public library co-operates with the 
playground department in the mainten- 
ance of branch libraries at the Violet 
Street, Slauson, Hazard and Echo Park 
playgrounds and at the Recreation Cen- 
ter. These branch libraries are eagerly 
l)atronized by both the children and their 
]iarents. The boys of the different play- 
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and through the kindness of generous 
friends have been supplied with instru- 
ments. They have drills and friendly 
contests for trophies at Inter-Playground 
Field Meets. There are directors for 
both girls and boys at each ground, some 
of them living in bungalows on the 
premises. Besides work directly con- 
nected with the playgrounds, the commis- 
sion maintains and manages a summer 
camp in the San Gabriel Canyon. The 
purpose is to provide a safe place where 
growing boys and girls may have a com- 
plete ohange from city life, with sun- 
shine, fresh air, space and activity. 

PLAZA — The little park, not much over 
an acre in extent, on Marchessault Street, 
between North Main and North Los An- 
geles streets. This is the oldest park in 
the city. It was the geographical center 
of the original grant of six square miles 
made by the Spanish government to the 
Pueblo of Los Angeles. On its western 
boundary the Church of Our Lady of 
the Angels was built and around it once 
clustered the homes of the Spanish-Cali- 
fornians. Now Chinatown and Sonora 
town fringe its borders. 

PLAZA CHURCH— See Church of Our 
Ladv of the Angels. 

POINT FIRMIN— The southern point 
of San Pedro, on the west side of the 
harbor of Los Angeles. A pretty park 
borders the high bluff which forms its 
edge. The view of the breakwater, har- 
bor, line of coast and of the ocean be- 
yond is extended and fine. 

POLO — See Amusements. 

POPULATION— Estimated (1916) from 
525,000 to 550,000. 

POSTOFFICE— The main Postofifice is 
in the Federal Building (which see), at 
the junction of North Main, Spring and 
Temple streets. General delivery and 
stamp window hours are from 6 a. m. 
to 12 p. m. There are seventy-three sub- 
stations and branches, some of them be- 
ing in the large department stores. 

PROSPECT PARK— This is one of the 
smaller parks of the city, containing only 
two and eighty-eight hundreds acres. It 
is one of the oldest parks and is filled 
with fine trees. As it is situated on high 
land (Echandia Street, Boyle Heights) it 
affords a fine view of the Sierra Madre 
mountains. 

PUBLIC LIBRARY— See Libraries. 

PUBLIC SCHOOLS— See Colleges and 
Schools, 



RAILROADS — Five trans-continental 
lines serve Los Angeles: The Sunset 
Route of the Southern Pacific, by way 
of El Paso and New Orleans; the Ogden 
Route of the same company, connecting 
with the Central and Union Pacific; the 
Santa Fe Route by way of Albuquerque; 
the Rock Island operating part way over 
the Southern Pacific with its own equip- 
ment, and the San Pedro, Los Angeles 
and Salt Lake Railroad, which began 
operation in 1905, opening up a compara- 
tively unknown section in southern Utah 
and Nevada. The Southern Pacific has 
two lines between Los Angeles and San 
Francisco, one along the coast and the 
other through the San Joaquin Valley. 
The Santa Fe also connects with San 
Francisco by way of Barstow. San Diego 
is reached by a Santa Fe line. Alto- 
gether a dozen lines of railway center in 
Los Angeles. 

RAILROAD STATIONS — There are 
three railroad stations in Los Angeles, 
the Salt Lake, the Santa Fe and the 
Southern Pacific. The Salt Lake passen- 
ger station is at First Street and Myers. 
The Santa Fe, on Santa Fe Avenue, be- 
tween First and Second streets; and the 
Southern Pacific station, called the Ar- 
cade Depot, is at Fifth and Central 
streets. A new Union Station on the site 
of the Arcade Depot, with Fifth Street 
widened to make a fine approach, was 
one of the suggestions of Mr. Charles 
Mulford Robinson for beautifying the 
city. 

RAILROAD TICKET OFFICES— Most 
of the city ticket offices of the various 
important railroads of the United States 
are on Spring Street, between Fifth and 
Seventh, or on Sixth Street near Spring, 
the majority being near the junction of 
Sixth and Spring. 

RESIDENTIAL SECTIONS — Though 
charming homes are characteristic of Los 
Angeles generally and are in the majority 
in many sections of the city, certain 
portions are especially noted. Wilshire 
Boulevard and its cross streets for a few 
blocks on each side are lined with won- 
derfully beautiful homes, standing, many 
of them, in spacious grounds, and none 
of them crowded. The architecture is 
varied, some are very unique, but each 
has its own charm, enhanced by its beau- 
tiful setting of riotous flowers, velvet 
lawns and luxuriant foliage. The West 
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Here most of the boraes are older and 
the gardens even more beautiful, 'fhere 
is nothing of the new-rich about the 
West Adams District. The Westhike Dis- 
trict, surrounding Westhike Park, is an- 
other especially attractive section. Ilcrlly- 
wood, now a part of Los Angeles, has 
long been noted for its beautiful homes 
in spacious, beautifully cultivated grounds. 
The hills surrounding the city are dt)tted 
with handsome places, many of them 
withdrawn from public view. 

RESTAURANTS— It is often said that 
in no city can one obtain as excellent 
fond nt as low a price ps in Tjos Angeles, 

Among the cafes of Los Angeles, the 
Cafe Bristol, which occupies the entire 
basement of the H. W. Hellman Building, 
Fourth and Spring streets, stands out as 
one place where the best of food and en- 
tertainment can be obtained at popular 
})rices. William Schneider, the proprietor, 
realizes that the only way he can get and 
keep a regular clientele is by always serv- 
ing the best that the market affords. 

Another reason for the popularity of the 
Bristol lies in the fact that the cabaret is 
always of the highest standard. Some of 
the most celebi-ated ]:)erformers in the 
country play engagements there and assist 
in making the time between courses pass 



swiftly. The company of entertainers is a 
large one and is selected so that the voices 
blend perfectly in the big ensemble num- 
bei's which are rendered many times during 
the evening. 

The sei-vice is another feature that makes 
a special appeal to dinei's at the cafe. 
There is no suggestion of hurry or rush, and 
yet the different courses are put before the 
guests at the ])roper time, with no tedious 
delays. The large floor space gives ample 
room for the tables so that there is no un- 
comfortable crowding, no edging between 
chairs and no interruption of a pleasant 
dinner or lunch. These things all comliinc 
to make the Bristol one of the most populai' 
eating places in "the City of the Angels." 

Other leading restaurants are Jahnke's 
Cafe, 110 South Spring Street, McKee's at 
518 South Spring Street, Levy's at 743 
South Spring Street, the New China Res- 
taurant at 508 South Main Street, the 
Oriental Restaurant nearly opposite, and 
Harlow's, 311 South Spring Street. 

Of pleasant luncheon places there is a 
gi'eat abundance. All up and downi Broad- 
way they present enticing front windows, 
and every hungry shopper or business 
man or afternoon seeker for "the cup 
that cheers" can find a place adapted to 
his or her desires. Among the pleasant- 




INTERIOR CAFE BRISTOL 
The rendezvous of the bon vivants antl epicures who visit Los Angeles 



LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD GUIDE 




CLUNE'S AUDITORIUM TIIKATKK 

The home of moving pictures, built of reinforced concrete, including an auditorium seating 4,000 and an 
office building. The largest building devoted to moving pictures in the world, and absolutely fireproof 



est are the Pig'n AYliistle at 224 South 
Broadway and, further south, Fosgate 
and Eees' Mission Restaurant at 449 
South Broadway, where Mexican special- 
ties can be obtained in addition to other 
li'ood things; The Pinton; the Chocolate 
Shop; Christopher's, where, in addition 
to the restaurant, a pretty upstairs tea 
room is open from 3 to 6; and, on Mer- 
cantile Place, between Fifth and Sixth 
streets, Broadway and Spring, the charm- 
ing Copper Tea-Kettle, the successful ven- 
ture of two Smith College graduates. 
Almost all the large department stores 
have very nice cafes on one of their 
upper floors. At Jevne's store, 208 
Spring Street, an excellent luncheon is 
served, patronized largely by business 
men and women. Several of the Owl 
Drug stores make a feature of "lunch- 
eonettes," a choice of sandwiches wrapped 



in waxed paper, a handful of ripe olives, 
a generous piece of pie a la mode Avith 
coffee, tea or chocolate, a remarkably 
good combination for only twenty-five 
cents. The grill rooms of the large hotels 
furnish the choicest meals and ai'e very 
popular. There are cafeterias without 
number, and, one might almost say, with- 
out price. You pass a loaded tray under 
the cashier's eye and find your ticket 
marked nineteen cents. Twenty-nine 
cents will pay for as much as the 
hungriest man can eat and the food is 
of almost uniform excellence, too. Hill 
Street is especially the home of the cafe- 
teria, from the Young Women's Chris- 
tian Association Building, above Third 
Street, south to Sixth Street. There is 
an excellent cafeteria in the basement of 
the Y. W. C. A. Building and the Young 
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tains one in the building at 71") South Hoi)e 
Street. This is Ivept open all night. There is 
a vegetarian restaurant on Hill Sti'eet near 
Third. 

RETAIL DISTRICT— In general terms, 
this district lies between First and Ninth 
streets, embracing Hill, Bi'oadway, Spring 
and Main streets with tlie nuni])t'red cross 
streets. 

Among the many noted jewelry houses of 
Los Angeles that of S. Nordlinger & Sons is 
probably the most noteworthy. Founded in 
Los Angeles in 1869 by Mr. S. Noixllinger, 
one of the early pioneer jewelers of the 
Pacitic Coast, it had its beginning in a 
modest little establishment on Commercial 
Street in the early pueblo days of the City 
of the Angels when the merchants closed 
their little stores during the noon hour and 
went home to lunch. 

Since 1869 the growth of the business 
necessitated moving five times, each time to 
larger quarters. For practically half a cen- 
tury the house of Nordlinger has been noted 
for its successful jewelry merchandising and 
its unswerving policy of fair dealing and 
fair prices — the solid rock upon which its 
success has been builded year by year. Mr. 
Nordlinger was actively at the head of his 
business for forty-two successive years — 
right up to the dav of his death in April, 
1911. 

The present large establishment at 631- 
633 South Broadway contains one of the 
largest and most important stock of dia- 
monds, watches, jeweh-y, silverware, etc., in 
the West. A department of European art 
goods was established on the second floor 
in the spring of 1912, and it is considered 
the most extensive depaiiment of this 
character in the Southwest. 

As the city of Los Angeles has grown to 
a metropolitan size, so has the house of 
S. Nordlinger & Sons become the first es- 
tablishment of its kind in Southern Cali- 
fornia. It is the only jewelry house in Los 
Angeles that has been in business continu- 
ously since 1860 — in fact, it is one of about 
six concerns established that long ago that 
is still in business in this city. Tw^o sons, 
Louis S. and Melville, who were taken into 
the business in 1907, are carefully main- 
taining the policies of their father. A cor- 
dial invitation is extended to all sojourners 
in Los Angeles to visit this establishment 
and inspect the many unusual offerings 
gathered from the four corners of the earth. 

Lovers of the rare and beautiful in gems 



of an unusual cliaracter will find in the 
house of Walton & Company a most superb 
collection of jewels. 

It is not by accident that their produc- 
tions differ so pleasingly from the average 
commercial wares; ratlier it is the result of 
an exhaustive study of the works of Vienna, 
Paris and other European cities dating back 
for centuries. 

The rare combination of the unique and 
artistic which characterizes the designs 
shown by this house commends them at once 
to all lovers of the beautiful, while the 
craftsmanship dis])layed in their construc- 
tion is typical of the ai'tist rather than the 
artisan. 

The black opal, a gem totally different 
from all others — of radiant irrideseent 
beauty, the most magnificent of all precious 
stones — will be found in countless numbers 
in the stores of Walton & Company. Their 
collection of this rare jewel is conceded to 
be the finest in the world. 

For the convenience of visitors to Cali- 
fornia Walton & Company have three stores : 
the San Francisco establishment being lo- 
cated at 145 Grant Avenue, the Los Angeles 
store at 348 South Broadway, while at 
Pasadena this firm has recently opened one 
of the handsomest establishments of its 
kind on the Pacific Coast. This store is 
called the Hotel Maryland Pergola Store 
and is situated on the corner of Euclid and 
Colorado. It is arranged rather as a jewel 
parlor than a store, with an interior of Cir- 
cassian walnut finish, and the display of 
gems is most attractively brought out by 
their encasement in jewel tables. 

SAN PEDRO— By the annexation of Wil- 
mington and San Pedro, and by the pur- 
chase of a narrow strip of land to conned 
them with the city, Los Angeles became a 
seaport with her harbor at San Pedro. The 
brealovater which protects the harbor cost 
the Federal government over $3,000,000, and 
was ten years in building. It is tw^o and 
one-eighth miles long, two hundred feet 
wide at the bottom, twenty feet at the top, 
and contains three million tons of stone. 
At its outer end is a lighthouse with lantern 
of 142,000 candlepower. 

SONORATOWN — North of the old 
Plaza and Church of Our Lady of the 
Angels, is a quarter given over wholly 
to Mexicans and some of their homes 
are old adobe houses which have stood 
there since the town was young. Some- 
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OUR PARKS 

Four thousand restful park acres greet tlie hosts who come and see and are conquered annually by parks 

whose semi-tropical trees and eternal "wearing of the green" ooze health and happiness incessantly 



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almost out of sight, somctimos it has 
hceu so freshened by paint or white 
wash as to be hardly recognized, but a 
sharp eye will find them. A short dis- 
tance away is the ancient cemetery where 
many of the early Spanish settlers are 
buried. 

SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD^ 

See Railroads. 

SOUTHWEST MUSEUM — See Mu- 
seums. 

STEAMSHIP LINES — See Coastwise 
Steamship Lines. 

STEAMSHIP TICKET OFFICES — 

These are ])raclically all on Spring Street 
and mainly in the vicinity of Fifth an,d 
Sixth. 

SOUTH PARK— On South Park Ave- 
nue and Fifty-first Street. This park 
contains eighteen and five-tenths acres. 
It is a favorite place for picnics. A mag- 
nificent double row of palms is one of 
its distinctive features. 

SUNSET PARK— On Sixth Street and 
Benton Boulevard. This is one of the 
newer parks of the city, containing six- 
teen and sixty-five hundredths acres. It 
promises to be one of the most delightful 
ones. Like Sycamore Grove, Eastlake and 
South Parks, it has two fine tennis courts. 

SYCAMORE GROVE — On Pasadena 
Avenue and Avenue Forty-seven. It con- 
tains nearly twenty acres and is the fa- 
vorite picnic park of the city. Every week 
a dozen or more picnics are held here 
ranging in numbers from fifty to five 
hundred. Giant sycamores have inspired 
its name. Numerous water features, fed 
from the stream of the Arroyo Seco, add 
to its attractiveness. Sycamore Grove 
will form an entrance to the proposed 
parkway which is to extend through the 
Arroyo to Pasadena and on to the moun- 
tains of the National Park Reserve. This 
will be one of the finest park drives in 
the country. 

TAXICABS— See Automobiles. 

THEATERS — Los Angeles is known as 
the theater city, where first-class dramatic 
talent is enthusiastically welcomed and 
where the drama in general is liberally 
patronized. Several excellent stock thea- 
ters are maintained. There are twenty 
theaters, and a hundred moving picture 
shows. There are forty establishncents in 
the city for the manufacture of moving 

•■'i.Tfnrr" films. 



The principal theaters of the city are 
the Morosco New Theatex', Hamburger's 
Majestic, the Burbank, the Lyceum, the 
Republic, Mason's Opera House, the Cen- 
tury and Auditorium. The first five 
named are virtually under the manage- 
ment of Morosco. The Morosco New 
Theater is the house of the Morosco Pro- 
ducing Company, a stock company which 
brings out new plays. Mason's Opera 
House produces only most notable plays. 
It is under the Frohman management. 

The Orpheum is the home of tlie I)ost 
vaudeville. Other good houses are the 
Hippodrome, Pantages and the Empress. 

The great Auditorium Theater on Fifth 
Street, between Olive and Hill, with a 
seating capacity of 4,000, is now Uic home 
of Clune's Moving Pictures. It is the 
largest building of its kind devoted ex- 
clusively to the production of high-class 
moving pictures in the world. 

Clune's photo plays. Tally's and Mo- 
zart's are among the best of the moving 
picture shows. 

A movement among manv of the lovers 
of drama of the city resulted in the build- 
ing of a Little Theater, somewhat aftei 
the plan of the Little Theater of New 
York. It is used largely for the produc- 
tion of such serious, intellectual plays as 
do not always appeal to the general public. 

The Mission Play is a peculiar feature 
of Los Angeles, and a great attraction. 
It presents a fascinating drama founded 
on early Mission days and is performed 
every afternoon and evening (except Mon- 
days) from December to July, in its own 
l^layhouse at the Mission San Gabriel, six 
miles away. (See Mission Play.) 

UNIVERSITY PARK— The northwest- 
ern part of Los Angeles, west of South 
Pasadena. 

VALLEYS — Surrounded by broken 
ranges of mountains as Los Angsles is, 
it follows that valleys are also numer- 
ous in the vicinity, ranging in size from 
small depressions to the wide, fertile 
levels of San Gabi;iel and San Fernando 
valleys. 

Antelope Valley embraces about one- 
fourth of Los Angeles County directly 
south of the Kern County line. It in- 
cludes the western part of the Mojave 
Desert. With water the land is very pro- 
.Inr-i'vii mill it is bpintr r.nnidlv settle'^ 



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THE SIERRAS 

From wlicnce cometh l.os 
Angeles water, high up in 
the Sierras, where nature 
aerates and cools and pours 
her bountiful supply of life- 
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and developed. Almonds are raised in this 
valley in t;'i'eat abundance. 

Cahuenga Valley runs west from Los 
Angeles and is sheltered on the north by 
the Santa Monica mountains which, by 
their protection, render the climate of the 
valley practically frostless. Hollywood, 
famed for its beautiful homes, is called 
the Pride of the Valley. Colegrove, Sher- 
man, Sawtelle, Beverly Hills and Brent- 
wood are also in this region. (See Ca- 
huenga Pass). 

Eagle Rock Valley lies north, or a lit- 
tle northeast of Los Angeles, between 
Pasadena and Glendale. Here is the pretty 
little town of Eagle Rock, on the out- 
skirts of Avhich are the beautiful new 
buildings of Occidental College. 

La Habra Valley is east of Los Angeles, 
and a little south, in the Puente Hills. 
"Whittier, a thriving town of 7,000 people, 
the seat of the Friend's College and of a 
State Reform School, is in this valley. 

La Canada is five miles north of Pasa- 
dena, and about three miles from Glen- 
dale. The word means a wide canyon. 
This is one of the most picturesque spots 
in Southern California. The average ele- 
vation is fifteen hundred feet. 

Los Nietos Valley is southeast of Los 
Angeles, a fertile, well watered section. 

Pomona Valley adjoins San Gabriel Val- 
ley on the east, the chief town is Pomona, 
a rapidly growing city with a population 
of nearly 15,000. Pomona is surrounded 
in every direction by orchards of citrus 
fruits, apricots, i^eaches, prunes and olives. 

San Fernando Valley is northwest of 
Los Angeles, lying between the Sierra 
Madre and Santa Monica mountains, a 
broad, level, wonderfully fertile plain 
comprising about 120,000 acres, which has 
been found to be especially adapted to 
peaches, though citrus fruits fiourish here 
also. There have been wonderful devel- 
opments in this valley Avithin the last few 
years. New towns have sprung up almost 
over night, and old towns have taken on 
new life. 

The new San Fernando electric line — 
the opening of great asphalt boulevards 
connecting with Los Angeles — the coming 
of Owens River water — the swift commer- 
cial awakening of historic San Fernando 
—the extreme fertility of the soil and 
strikingly low prices of acreage — are con- 
ditions that must precipitate a veritable 
rush for San Fernando Mission lands. 

The extension of the Pacific Electric 
Railroad system to the western end of 
the valley, where the new town of Owens- 



moutli is situated, the extension of elec- 
tric light service through the valley, the 
planting of orchards where once were 
barley fields are part of recent improve- 
ments. The old San Fernando Mission 
is in this valley. (See Special Pleasure 
Trips). 

San Gabriel Valley — This beautiful and 
liistoric valley, si retching eastward from 
Pasadena to the San Jose hills and from 
the Sierra Madre mountains on the north 
to the Whittier hills on the south, is one 
of the veritable garden spots of Southern 
California. Sheltered on the north by the 
majestic i-ange of the Sierra Madres and 
blessed with wonderfully fertile soil and a 
climate of unusual charm, it was, from its 
first discovery, a favorite of the old 
Franciscan fathers. Here they founded 
one of their first and most prosperous 
missions called San Gabriel, portions of 
which are still preserved and used. 

Later years have brought wondei'ful de- 
velopments, both in agiiculture and the 
building of many beautiful towns. Pasa- 
dena, the principal city, whose Indian 
name means Crown of the Valley, is 
famous all over the world, and Alhambra, 
Moni'ovia, Azusa, Duarte, North Whittier, 
Glendora, and Covina are other flourish- 
ing centers, each in the heart of a rich 
agricultural district. Around these towns 
and out through the valley are hundreds 
of beautiful country homes. 

Scientific irrigation and cultivation of 
the fertile soil have made the Valley as 
rich as Nature made it beautiful. One 
may ride all through it on splendid boule- 
vards amid thousands of acres of orange, 
lemon and walnut groves and productive 
gardens in which are grown all kinds of 
sub-tropical fruits, plants and flowers. 

WESTLAKE PARK— This park com- 
prises thirty-one and fifteen hundredths 
acres. It is situated in one of the finest 
residential districts at Seventh and Al- 
varado streets. The park contains a. lake 
covering eleven acres, much used for boat- 
ing and canoeing. There are many fine 
views from the park. It contains fine 
trees and beautiful flowers and shrubbery. 

WILMINGTON— This town was an- 
nexed with San Pedro to form the Port 
of Los Angeles. Wilmington is on the 
inner harbor. It has been raised from 
seven to ten feet by depositing upon its 
surface the sand dredged from the harbor. 



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Gems of an Unusual 
Character 



Lovers of the rare and beautiful in gems of an unusual character 
will find in the House of Walton & Company a collection of 
superb jewels gathered from the four corners of the earth. 

The rare combination of the unique and the art'stic, commends 
this jewelry at once to all, while the craftsmanship displayed in 
the construction is typical of the artist rather than of the artisan. 

ART IN JEWEL CRAFT 

Not by accident do our productions differ so pleasingly 
from the average commercial wares, rather it is the 
result of an exhaustive study of the work of the artists 
of European cities dating back for ages. 

BLACK OPALS 

Of radiant iridescent beauty, the black opal stands 
preeminently the most magnificent of all precious 
stones. Our collection of these gems is conceded to be 
the finest in the world. 

ORDINARY TO UNIQUE 

Many pieces of old fashioned jewelry contain jewels 
which may be remounted in most attractive form. 
Our artists are exceptionally skilled in making designs 
for the rearrangement of stones, and have created 
many articles of rare merit from jewelry that had 
become obsolete. 



Walton & Company 



Los Angeles 

348 So. Broadway 



Manufacturing Jewelers 

Pasadena 

Maryland Pergola Store 

Corner Euclid and Colorado 



San Francisco 
145 Grant Avenue 



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LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO STANDARD (UJIDK 

SPECIAL PLEASURE TRIPS 

HOW TO SEE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BY BOAT, 
TRAIN, TROLLEY OR AUTOMOBILE 

The following descriptive trips will prove of great as- 
sistance as a guide to the tourist who wishes to visit the many 
places of interest in the vicinity of Los Angeles. 

Each of these trips begins and ends at Los Angeles, and 
there are many others equally interesting; in fact, a tourist 
can easily devote a month to sightseeing, visiting a different 
place every day, and if he desires be at his hotel in Los 
Angeles almost every night. 



SPECIAL PLEASURE TRIPS — There 

are so many delightful short trips lead- 
ing out from Los Angeles in every direc- 
tion that the tourist is constantly lured 
away from the city to the beaches, the 
mountains, the orange groves, the mis- 
sions, and the near-by towns. Weeks can 
be spent in seeing fresh and interesting 
sights in the vicinity every day, so that 
one is tempted to make use of an Irish 
bull to say that the chief delights of Los 
Angeles are the pleasant and easy ways 
of getting somewhere else. However, Los 
Angeles herself is full of attractions and 
there are organized trips for seeing the 
city as well as for taking the tourist out- 
side. If one has the time it is best to 
take both the sight seeing automobile, 
and the sight seeing trolley trips in the 
city as, except for a portion of the busi- 
ness streets, they cover different routes. 
There are a number of sight seeing auto- 
mobiles operated by different companies. 
[They start about ten in the morning and 
two in the afternoon, making stops for 
passengers at the principal hotels. A 
half-hour before starting time they may 
be found along Hill Street, Broadway or 
Spring. The fare is $1.00. The route 
first goes over the main business streets, 
and the principal banks, office buildings 
and other institutions are pointed out. 
Then follow the old Plaza and historic 
Church of Our Lady of the Angels, the 
adobe homes of the early settlers, the old 



cemetery where some of the foundei's ai'e 
buried, the city oil belt, the City Hall, 
Federal Building and County Court House, 
the Times Building, Fort Hill, Angels' 
Flight, Central Park and its surround- 
ings, Westlake Park. Sunset Park, Occi- 
dental Park, Luna Park, Wilshire Boule- 
vard and West Adams Street with their 
beautiful homes, the residences of many 
distinguished people, handsome churches, 
residential "places," ''squares" and 
"parks," the bungalow district with its 
wondrous variety of bungalows which 
have cost as much to build as three-story 
mansions. Singleton Court with the ruined 
home and the barn resembling a hanjl- 
some church, handsome family hotels and 
apartment houses, school buildings and 
hospitals, the whole a short half-day's 
ride, but giving a most interesting gen- 
eral view of the city and its institutions. 
The "Seeing Los Angeles" observation 
trolley car leaves the Pacific Electric sta- 
tion at Sixth and Main streets every day 
at two p. ra. The trip covers forty miles, 
takes thi'ee hours and the price is fifty 
cents, which includes free admission to 
the Pigeon Farm and Los Angeles Os- 
trich Farm. Eastlake Park and the Alli- 
gator Fai'm are also visited, all exceed- 
ingly interesting places which are de- 
scribed in the body of this book. The 
principal buildings of the city are passed, 
business streets, churches and many hand- 
some residences. 



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BALLOON ROUTE TROLLEY TRIP— 

Tliis trip gives a \vli()lo day of pleasure 
and sight seeing for $1.00. The ride is 
one of great scenic beauty, paralleling 
the mountains to the sea; then for twen- 
ty-eight miles it skirts the ocean, includ- 
ing ten beaches on its way with stops at 
the principal ones. The route goes first 
through the tunnels, past the oil district, 
Elysian and Echo parks, through the 
beautiful streets of Hollywood, and the 
Cahuenga Valley with its groves of 
orange, lemon, walnut and fig trees, 
through Sherman with its power plants, 
shops of the Pacific Electric Railway and 
homes of the company's employes mostl.v 
owned by the men themselves; past the 
Los Angeles Country Club, with its pretty 
white club house and five hundred acres 
of rolling fields; past Beverly Hills and 
its handsome hotel, and on to Sawtelle 
and the Soldiers' Home. Here there is 
a stop to walk through the handsome 
grounds of the Home. Superb double 
rows of Norfolk Island pines are the 
most striking feature of the place, but 
there are many other handsome trees and 
shrubs and beautiful flowers. The plash- 
ing streams of a large fountain make 
x-ainbows in the sunshine and fall pleas- 
antly on the ear. This home comprises 
forty-five buildings and seven hundred 
acres of land. It is one of the four orig- 
inal Soldiers' Homes established by the 
United States Government. There are 




National Soldiers' Home at Sawtelle: the abiding 
place of about 3,000 veterans 

now nine or ten. The inmates number 
over three thousand. Besides food, shel- 
ter, clothing and care in sickneses, pro- 
vision is made for their recreation. In 
Amusement Hall facilities for games of 




Ocean Park bathing beach and bath house. Beautiful 
strand where thousands are entertained 

all sorts are furnished, and a library of 
over eight thousand volumes and 114 
periodicals provides the men with plenty 
of interesting reading. The sad note con- 
nected with all this is that the deaths 
among these veterans average nearly one 
a day. On a near-fcy hillside is a beau- 
tiful cemetery connected with the home. 
In this vicinity was the famous Wolfskill 
ranch, comjDrising 3,800 acres. From the 
Soldiers' Home the car goes on to Santa 
Monica and the sea. 

Santa Monica is located on the Pa- 
cific, eighteen miles from Los Angeles. 
Linda Vista Park extends along the bluff 
above the water and makes a lovely 
picture, with its shrubbery and bright 
pink moss borders outlined against the 
blue ocean. Santa Monica is a beautiful 
city of 20,000 population built on a high 
plateau and extending for two miles along 
the ocean. Mountains, cleft by picturesque 
canyons, bound it on the north and east, 
and form a setting in sharp contrast to 
the modern city which they almost en- 
circle. Santa Monica is a happy combi- 
nation of a city of permanent and beau- 
tiful homes, with wide, beautifully shaded 
streets, splendid boulevax-ds, fine schools 
and churches, and an all-the-year-round 
seaside resort of unusual attractions. Surf 
bathing is pleasurable almost every day 
in the year, the fishing is exceptionally 
fine and there is a splendid concrete 
pleasure pier sixteen hundred feet long 
and fifty feet wide built and owned by 
the city. The Cafe Nat Goodwin is a 
most attractive place, built on a pier 
over the sea, affording from its dining 
rooms, sun parlors and roof garden unob- 
structed views of the beach and ocean. 
The service is of the best. 



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DO NOT FAIL TO VISIT 

VE N I C E 

±he Popular Resort 

14 Miles from Los Angeles 

VENICE 

IS a city or Amusements and Homes 

VENICE 

IS quickly reached by Electric Cars 
ana Autos 

VENICE 

nas many Hotels, Apartment Houses 
and the best equipped Bungalo\v ana 
Villa City m the NA^orla for the ac-' 
commodation of visitors. 



FOR ALL INFORMATION REGARDING VENICE, WRITE THE 

Venice CnamDer o/^ Commerce 

VENICE, CALIFORNIA. 



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Oceaiisidc and country drives offer op- 
portunities for motoring, driving and rid- 
ing. The ocean drive along the cliffs a 
hundred feet above the surf is wonderful 
for scener.v. A famous automobile race 
is held annually on the Santa Monica 
Boulevard, and each contest sees the 
world's record lowered. Half a dozen 
moving picture concerns have producing 
plants in or near Santa ]\Ionica, the scen- 
ery and climate being peculiarly favorable 
for the work. 

From Santa Monica the car passes for 
two miles along the boulevard on the 



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water's edge and then the beaches come 
in quick succession, Ocean Park, Venice, 
Playa del Rey, El Segundo, Manhattan, 
Shakespeare Beach. Hermosa Beach, Moon- 
stone Beach and Redondo, each one with 
its own especial attractions. Venice is 
the Mecca for thousands of pleasure lov- 
ers, but it is more than this; it is a rap- 
idly growing city of apartment houses 
and homes, with a population of over 
8,000. It is built in imitation of its 
European prototype, with winding canals 
edged by brilliant pink moss, and high 
bridges under which the gondolas can 
pass. Along the great pleasure pier, and 
within a short distance from it, is every 
device and • equipment known to amuse^ 
ment resorts. There is also an enoromus 
bath house, an auditorium and a most 
interesting aquai'ium. A miniature rail- 
way with a train of seven cars winds in 
and out among the canals for a two- 
mile trip. A scenic railway offers a ride 
in the clouds. In St. Mark's Plaza a 
good band plays every afternoon and 



evening, and the squai'e is lillecl with seat, 
for the listeners. A ship drawn up at 
the pier is made over into an excellent 
and picturesque cafe; booths and small 
shops offer all sorts of wares. Every inch 
of the place is full of life and interest. 
At Playa del Rey (tlie playground of the 
king) is a lagoon for batliing and boat- 
ing. El Segundo is a new industrial city. 
Here are situated the great refinei'ies of 
the Standard Oil Company. At Ocean 
Park is a pleasure pier and there are the 
usual amusement features. At Moonstone 
Beach a stop is made and all have an 
opportunity to gather the moonstones and 
other pretty pebbles which abound on 
this beach. Jasper and water agates, as 
well as moonstones, are found. Redondo 
Beach is one of the larger resorts. Here 
is a verv large hot salt water plunge bath 
recently^ built at a cost of $200,000. The 
building contains three pools, the largest 
being 70 by 157 feet. The babies' pool 
is 30 by 70 feet, with water from one 
to two feet deep. In the high diving 
pool the water is nine feet deep. There 
are also in the building tub baths of 
every description, sun parlors and every 
convenience. The surf bathing at Re- 
dondo is very fine. The place has also a 
wide reputation for fishing, which is good 
at all seasons of the year. There are all 
sorts of amusement features here, hotels 
and a tent city among the trees. There 
are restaurants on every hand and here 
the car stops long enough for the fish 
dinner which every one is ready to enjoy. 
On the return a stop of nearly two hours 
is made at Venice, and Los Angeles is 
reached about half past six. 




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KITE SHAPED TRIP— This is a trip 
over a double loop of the Santa Fe Kail- 
road, including Redlands, Riverside and 
San Bernardino, with the hundreds of 
acres of orange groves surrounding them, 
and many interesting smaller towns. No 
part of the route is passed over twice in 
going and returning. About a two hours' 
stop is made at both Redlands and River- 
side, long enough for an automobile ride 
in each place, which will show the beau- 
ties of the surrounding scenery. The 
train leaves the Santa Fe station, L()s 
Angeles, at 8:30 a. m. and reaches there 
in return at 6 :10 p. m., after a day of 
wonderfully delightful experiences. An 
observation parlor car, built and decorated 
on mission lines, carries the kite-shaped 
track excursionists. The double loop of 
the route is in the form of a figure eight, 
the larger loop being between Los An- 
geles and San Bernardino, where the two 
loops join. The smaller one is between 
San Bernardino and Mentone, including in 
its circle. Arrowhead, Highlands and Red- 
lands. 

On leaving the Los Angeles Santa Fe 
station at Santa Fe Avenue and First 
Street, the train passes first through High- 
land Park, the former seat of Occidental 
College, and Garvanza, where is the art 
building of the University of Southern 
California, both towns a part of Los An- 
geles. Then comes South Pasadena and 
at the right the Raymond Hotel stands 
out conspicuously from its flower-decked 
grounds. A few miles further and the 
live oaks of Laraanda Park are reached, 
and next is Santa Anita, the gi'eat 
"Lucky" Baldwin ranch, comprising dur- 
ing his lifetime 49,000 acres of orchards, 
vineyards and gi-ain fields. Sierra Madj-e 
is passed, a beautiful little town of 1,600 
population nestling in the foothills of the 
mountains. Monrovia is also a beauti- 
ful foothill town one thousand feet above 
the sea level with views that, like *hose 
of Sierra Madre, are unsurpassed. Duarte 
and Azusa follow. Although the present 
toAvn of Azusa was established in 1887, 
its history goes back to the early history 
of the State. It Avas a part of one of the 
old Spanish and later Mexican grants, 
and the ranch of which it was a part 
then consisting of 4,431 acres, was pur- 
chased in 1844 by Henry Dalton, who 
married the Senorita Zamereno. It be- 
came a trading settlement, where Span- 
iards and Indians pursued their vocations 
of hunting, herding and planting, weav- 



ing, blaeksmithing and saddle making. In 
38f)5 the first school-house was built, tlic 
walls of brush woven between poles, the 
floor of earth and the roof of shakes. 
Here the Mexican youths were taught the 
rudiments of knowledge. Fine school 
buildings of the most modern type have 
replaced the brush shelter of early days. 
Covina, Glendora, San Dimas, North Po- 



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Orange groves, cities and snow-clad mountains. A 
vista from Smiley Heights, Redlands 



mona and Claremont are passed in quick 
succession, linked together by fruitful 
orange groves where fragrant blossoms 
fill the train with perfume. Claremont 
is the seat of Pomona College (see Col- 
leges and Schools). Cucamonga, just be- 
yond, was a settlement on the old stage 
road between Los Angeles and San Ber- 
nardino. A little further and we reach 
San Bernardino, the intersection of the 
two loops. This city, the county seat of 
San Bernardino County, is one of the old- 
est of American Southern California 
towns, having been settled by Mormon 
colonists in 1851. It has an elevation of 
over a thousand feet, and is a mining as 
well as citrus fruit growing center. The 
scenery around San Bernardino beggars 
description. Ranges of mountains appear, 
one behind the other, with lofty white 
peaks rising high above the general range. 
When, in winter, all are clothed in 
snowy white, the contrast with the smil- 
ing gi'een valleys below makes a scene of 
indescribable beauty. 

Six miles north from San Bernardino, 
Arrowhead station is reached. This is 
the station for the Arrowhead Hot Springs, 
which were famous with the Indians for 
their medicinal virtues long before the white 
man came ; they bubble out of the mountain 
side boiling hot and flow down a ravine in a 



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for more than twenty years has stood here supplying 
this city with the finest the world knows how to make in 

Everything Women and Children Wear 

Today it is still supplying these beautiful things — 
but at prices that average lower than many stores 
the world over believe possible. 



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offers a three years' course in all branches 
of Literary Interpretation, including 

Story Telling Dramatic Art Public Speaking 

Dramatic Theory Short Story Writing 

Art Music Physical Training 



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is an accredited school offering 
four }'cars' course — college pre- 
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of EXPRESSION SCHOOL. 
Sub-preparatory courses in the 
7th and 8th grades. 



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in a charming, retired location. Healthful 
outdoor recreation — gymnasium, basket- 
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number of boarding students. Write for 
catalogue of either school; or our field 
secretary will call by request. 



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DIRECTOR 
1500 South Figueroa St. Los Angeles, Cal. 



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steaming stream, while down another ravine 
but a short distance away a pure, cold moun- 
tain stream is flowing. On tlie face of the 
mountain, visible for thirty miles away, 
is the plainly marked perfect figure of 
an arrowhead, 1,115 feet in length and 
396 feet in width, drawn or sculptured on 
the mountain side without a flaw. Dif- 
fering from so many mountain symbols, 
it needs no imagination to trace its sharply 
cut outlines. The figure is made in a 
growth of white sage springing from light 
gray decomposed granite. The background 
is dark earth supporting a thick growth 
of dark green chaparral. It has been 
there as far back as the brain of man 
can trace it, back to the days when the 
first white men learned to speak with the 
Indians and were told that for their an- 
cestoi's the great arrowhead pointed the 
way to the healing springs. They have 
a legend that it was made by a fiery ar- 
rowhead hurled from the sky in a battle 
between two warrior gods. Whether God- 
made, man-made or nature-made, we can- 
not tell. We only know that Time has 
not blurred its outlines and the ravages 
of the elements have made no impression 
upon it. 

A few miles further and Highlands is 
reached, picturesque in situation, and sur- 
rounded by orange groves on every hand. 
Then comes Mentone, the extreme point of 
the smaller loop, where the train swings 
around on the return trip, but there is 
no repeating, for new towns and new 
scenery greet the eye at every curve. 
Redlands, sixty-six miles from Los Arj- 
geles, is reached soon after eleven. Here 
there is a stop of two hours and ten min- 
utes, long enough for a drive up Smiley 
Heights, through Canyon Crest Park and 
along the tree-lined avenues, between 
groves of oranges, through some of the 
most beautiful portions of this beautiful 
city. North, east and south, the snow- 
tipped mountains lie round about it; on 
the west the vallej-s open. Orange groves 
are everywhere, surrounding the hand- 
some homes or covering the level acres 
of the valley. Handsome churches and 
schools and a beautiful library building 
add to the attractions of the city. 

After luncheon at Casa Loma, one of 
the charming hotels of Southern Califor- 
nia, the trip proceeds, through Colton 
to Riverside, which is reached at 2:15. 
Here time is allowed for an automobile 
ride through the principal streets, like 
those of Redlands, shaded by graceful 




Riverside Mission Inn, famous for its architecture, its 
Mission furnishings and unbounded hospitality 



pepper trees and eucalyptus with orange 
and lemon groves everywhere; and up 
Roubidoux mountain, where the field of 
vision is widened at every foot of rise. 
Then back to the famous Glenwood Mis- 
sion Inn. There is time enough left to 
examine the court, the library, the clois- 
ters and music room. It is a place so 
full of interest and beauty that everyone 
must leave it with regret. Automobiles 
for the drive meet the incoming trains. 
(See Chapter on Hotels of Southern Cali- 
fornia.) 

After leaving Riverside, the train 
passes through Arlington, Corona, Rich- 
field, Placentia, La Mirada, Los Nietos, 
Whittier and Rivera, all pretty, growing 
towns where citrus and deciduous fruits 
and walnut trees flourish. At Whittier, 
in the Puente hills, is a Friends' College, 
and the State reform school. Rivera is 
the center of the walnut gi'owing indus- 
try. At 6 :10 La Grande station, Los An- 
geles, is reached. One hundred and 
fifty-eight miles have been traveled over 
a route which for diversity and interest 
can scarcely be equalled. The fare for 
the trip includes stop-over privileges, if 
one wishes to stay a short time at any 
point. This does not include the drives 
at Redlands and Riverside, which are 
optional and extra. (See also Orange Belt 
Special.) 

LAUREL CANYON, INCLUDING 
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN— Take a Holly- 
wood car marked Laurel Canyon, at Hill- 
Street station of the Pacific Electric. The 
entrance to Laurel Canyon is reached 
through Sunset Boulevard and Hollywood 
Boulevard. Here connection is made with 
the trackless trolley ear, the first in 
America. The car passes first between 



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orange and lemon groves, over Laurel 
Canyon Mountain Boulevard into the can- 
yon proper. The road winds and turns 
with the little mountain brook, giving 
glimpses here and there of pretty homes 
half hidden in the trees. After a two- 
mile ride the junction of this boulevard 
with the Lookout Mountain road is 
reached. This is the terminus of the 
trackless trolley in the center of Canyon 
Castle Park, which is the site of the new 
Canyon Castle Hotel. Here is a rustic 
inn where delicious chicken dinners, or 
lighter refreshments, are served under the 
trees, on the shady porches, or in the 
pleasant dining room. As the trackless 
trolley car makes frequent trips there is 
plenty of time to explore. Continuing 
along Laurel Canyon road we pass more 
beautiful homes where the grounds have 
been adapted to the natural beauties of 
rock and boulder and enhanced by foun- 
tains and waterfalls. Further on the 
Laurel Park golf grounds are reached and 
just beyond is San Ternando summit, 
which affords a wide panoramic view of 
the San Fernando Valley, the towns of 
Van Nuys, Owensmouth, Burbank and of 
the old San Fernando Mission itself. This 
summit is only a ten minutes' walk from 
where the trolley was left. Returning to 
that point and taking the turn to the 
right we are in the Lookout Mountain 
road, which passes through another part 
of Canyon Castle among scores of unique 
bungalows. When the summit of Lookout 
Mountain is reached we discover that its 
name is fully justified. The vision en- 
compasses the city and the sea and the 
towns between ; it sweeps the length of the 
Cahuenga Valley, embraces Hollywood, 
Shei-man, Beverly Hills, Sawtelle, the 
Soldiers' Home, Santa Monica, Venice 
and Playa del Rey, a wonderful view, 
well worth the slight effort of the climb. 
The way is not steep and there are no 
difficult places. Returning to the track- 
less trolley we ride back to the Hollywood 
car. The fare on the trackless is ten cents 
each way. 

MT. LOWE— The Mt. Lowe trip is an 
excursion worth coming many miles to 
take, a wonderful experience which can- 
not be repeated elsewhere. There are 
higher mountains which are accessible, but 
in comprehensive and varied views, in 
steep grades and in the overcoming of 
engineering difficulties which amounted 
almost to impossibilities, the Mount Lowe 
trip is unique. Trains leave the Pacific 



Electric station at Sixth and Main streets 
at 8, 9, and 10 a. m., and at 1 :30 
and 4 p. m. The trip to Alpine Tavern 
takes two hours. We cross a portion 
of the San Gabriel Valley, pass the 
Raymond Hotel and Hotel Maryland 
in Pasadena and go on to the north 
through Altadena, which lies just at the 
foot of the mountain. Soon the track 
begins to climb, winding around shoulders 
of the mountain, and opening new scenes 
at every curve. If it is late winter or 




On the trail of Mount Lowe to tlie summit of the 
famous mountain 



early spring, the poppy fields of Altadena 
are spread below like sheets of gold. 
Soon Rubio Canyon is reached, a beauti- 
ful cool glen between Mt. Wilson and Mt. 
Lowe, twenty-two hundred feet above the 
sea. This is the beginning of the incline 
which reaches up to Echo Mountain thir- 
ty-five hundred feet altitude, an ascent .of 
thirteen hundred feet in the three thous- 
and which are to be traveled to reach 
the top of the incline. A look up the 
steep slope is startling, but we know the 
cable is tested to one hundred tons and 
never carries more than five; we know 
the car with its tiers of seats rising one 
above the other is fastened to the cable 
permanently, not held by a grip, and we 
seat ourselves with confidence. The grades 
of the incline vary from forty-eight to 
sixty-two per cent, an almost unbeliev- 
able degree of steepness. Reaching the 
summit of Echo Mountain, much of in- 
terest is found. First and always is the 
glorious view. Nearer at hand is the 
power house to be examined and the 
mechanism that pulls the car. On the 
crest is the great search-light brought 
from the Columbia Exposition in 1893. 
It is of 3,000,000 candlepower and at night 



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Mount Lowe Incline Railway 



can light up the whole mountain side, 
cast its rays into the deepest canyons, 
or send its beams over cities in the val- 
ley below. Mt. Lowe observatory is close 
by, containing a large and powerful tele- 
scope and a very fine spectroscope. The 
great purity of the air makes this a pe- 
culiarly favorable situation for the use 
of both instruments. 

From Echo Mountain the third and the 
most spectacular stage of the journey be- 
gins. The trolley car climbs fifteen hun- 
dred feet in the five miles between Echo 
Mountain and Alpine ; there are 127 curves 
and twenty bridges in these five miles, 
and, at times, on looking down, five sep- 
arate lines of rails can be seen, and at 
one place by looking up and down, nine 
are visible. The longest piece of strai,sht 
track is only 120 feet. The circular bridge 
is one of the seemingly impossible engi- 
neering feats, spanning a canyon, reach- 
ing around a mountain spur and ascending 
as it goes. The car passes through the 
Granite Gateway, passes Los Flores Can- 
yon, Millard's and Grand canyons, and 
always climbing until, five thousand feet 
above the sea, Alpine Tavern is reached. 
All the way has been a succession of beau- 
tiful views over San Gabriel, La Canada 
and San Fernando valleys, over Altadena, 
Pasadena, Los Angeles and smaller towns, 
over the ocean to Santa Catalina, Santa 
Barbara, San Clemente and the San Nich- 
olas Islands. In places the view is wide; 
again there are only glimpses between 
the trees. 

Alpine Tavern is a pretty hotel sur- 
rounded by gnarled live oaks and tall 
pines standing at the head of Grand Can- 
yon, the upper tei'minus of the trolley 
line. A large central hall with a mam- 
moth stone fireplace gives a most hospi- 
table air to the place. The meals are 
excellent. Near-by are a number of tent 
cottages for those who desire to live out 
of doors. The ''trail" starts from the 
tavern and winds three miles to the sum- 
mit of the mountain, eleven hundred feet 
above the tavern. The trip may be made 
by ponies or burros, or by walking if one 
desires. The view from the summit, of 
course, surpasses all the rest, but many 
prefer the quiet enjoyment of the tavern 
and vicinity and go no further. Besides 
the trail to the summit there are numer- 
ous other pleasant trips over the moun- 
tains to be taken from the tavern. In the 
winter the snow is often deep on Mt. Lowe 
and Mt. Wilson, and an hour's ride from. 



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Pasadena will take one from roses rioting 
in the open air to snow tields and icicles. 
One may follow the tournament of roses 
on New Year's morning by a game of 
snowball on ]\It. Lowe or Mt. Wilson in 
the afternoon. The i-ound trip fare for 
Mt. Lowe is $2.50 from Los Angeles. 




Above the clouds on Mount Lowe, 6,000 feet above 
the floor of the San Gabriel Valley 



MT. WILSON— From the summit of 
Mt. "Wilson is seen one of the most beau- 
tiful panoramic views in the world, range 
upon range of mountains, broad and fer- 
tile valleys, groves and orchards, fields 
and vineyards, the shores of Long Beach, 
San Pedro and around to Santa Monica, 
the island lying miles out from shore 
with the Pacific rolling between, and per- 
haps, if it is very clear, Point Loma 
away on the southern horizon. An auto- 
mobile road to the summit is now open 
to the public. People using the road do 
so at their own risk. The company will 
not be responsible for accidents. At tlie 
toll house on Santa Anita Avenue, pri- 
vate machines are given a book of regu- 
lations, giving distances, rules governing 
use of road, etc. There is an average 
grade of ten per cent. The summit is 
nine and one-quarter miles from the toll 
house. An automobile stage is operated 
between Pasadena and the summit. It 
leaves Pasadena at 9 :30 a. m., arrives at 
the summit at 11 :45. On returning it leaves 
at 3 p. m., and arrives at Pasadena at 4:45. 
Seats should be engaged in advance. Full 
information can be obtained at the Pasa- 
dena office, 173 East Colorado Street, or 
at any of the information bureaus in 
Los Angeles. The fare is $4.00 for the 
round trip. The views on this road are 
unsurpassed. l\It. Wilson can also be 
reached by trail from Sierra Madre. At 



Si.xth and Main streets, Los Angeles, take 
a Pacific Electric car for Sierra Madre, 
a fifty minutes' ride over one of the 
prettiest routes in the system. Sierra 
Madre is a beautiful little city, which 
could live on its scenery if any town 
could. From no place is it so easy by 
trail to get into the mountains for which 
the town was named. Llere at the Mt. 
Wilson stables burros, mules and saddle 
horses can be obtained. A burro is $2.00 
for the round trip; mules or horses ai'e 
$2.50. On the summit of Mt. Wilson is 
an enormous solar observatory, and a 
museum connected with it which contains 
all the photographs of the heavenly bod- 
ies taken here. 

OLD MISSION TROLLEY TRIP— This 

is one of the all-day trips of the Pacific 
Electric, a day of the most vai'ied de- 
lights, embracing Pasadena, famed all 
over the continent for its beauty, a visit 
to hoary old San Gabriel Mission and a 
stop at the Cawston Ostrich Farm. The 
route lies along the foothills of the Sierra 
INIadre mountains and throuch the beau- 
tiful San Gabriel Valley, with constantly 
varying views of mountains, hills, charm- 
ing towns and smiling fields checkered 
with orange groves and vineyards. Shortly 
before reaching San Gabriel the train 
passes thi'ough Alhambra, known as the 
Gateway to the San Gabriel Vallev. It 
is a pretty modern city with a $50,000 
library, fine schools and many charming 
homes. 

At San Gabriel the first stop is made 
and time is allowed to go through the 
church, examine the interesting historical 
relics and to get a glimpse of the quaint 
little town. San Gabriel Mission may 
truthfully be called the Mother of Los 
Angeles, for it was from here that Felipe 
de Neve, accompanied by Padres of the 
Mission, pablodores, soldiers and Indians, 
set out one September day in 1781 to 
found the Pueblo de Nuestra Senora. 
Reina de Los Angeles. San Gabriel itself 
was founded just ten years earlier by the 
Franciscan padres, Somera and Cambon. 
who, with ten soldiers, marching north 
from San Diego, came to this wide and 
beautiful valley under the shelter of the 
Sierra Madre mountains. Selecting a 
favorable location they erecfed a large 
wooden cross, sprinkled the ground with 
holy water and with hymns and prayers 
dedicated the spot to San Ga^oriel Arcangel. 
The Indians at fii'st regarc/ing these demon- 
strations with curiosity, scon assumed a 



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FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE SEA IN AN HOUR 

Where else do the confines of a single hour compensate with a dip in the surf, a drive 

through a world of fruits and flowers, under the influence of limitless sunshine, 

to a battle of snow balls among the clouds? 



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hostile attitude, which threatened the 
lives of the whole party, but the mis- 
sionaries, unfurlini^ before them a large 
banner on which was painted a life- 
size picture of the Virgin, were, notwith- 
standing their faith, astonished at the ef- 
fect it produced. The Indians immediately 
prostrated themselves upon the ground 
with every sign of submission. From this 
propitious beginning the Mission grew 
and prospered until, with its fertile fields 
and vineyards, its cattle and sheep upon 
a thousand hills, and its herds of horses 
grazing in the valleys, it came to be called 
the Queen of the Missions. Its gardens 
overflowed with plenty. There were 
oranges, limes, citrons, apples, pears, 
peaches, pomegranates, figs and grapes in 
abundance. From the grapes five or six 
hundred barrels of wine were made an- 
nually and two hundred barrels of brandy. 
The San Gabriel wine was much sought 
after. But all was held by the padres as 
a sacred trust. As with the other mis- 
sions hospitality was unlimited. No trav- 
eler who crossed their thresholds passed 
on his way unrefreshed. 




Romantic Old Mission San Galjiicl. One of the few 
remaining links with the days of the early Dons 



The San Gabriel Indians seem to have 
been superior to many of the early Cali- 
fornia Indians, with some customs of civ- 
ilization. Marriages between those near 
of kin was forbidden. Robbery was un- 
known. They had names for the points 
of the compass and the North Star, and 
a name for God signifying Giver of Life. 
They were taught by the padres all sorts 
of handicrafts and in time became so 
skilful that they built a ship which was 
launched in San Pedro harbor. They as- 
sisted in preparing the first temporary 



place of worship and a garrison for the 
soldiers which were built, palisade fash- 
ion, on the banks of the river Temblores. 
During the last decade of the eighteenth 
century the site of the mission was 
changed and the present edifice was be- 
gun. It was finished in the early years 
of the nineteenth century. The main walls, 
six feet thick, are built of stone up to 
the windows; from there up of brick. 
There was formerly a tower on the south- 
east corner which was destroyed by an 
earthquake in 1812. The original roof 
was destroyed then and replaced by an- 
other of tiling. 

The buttressed walls and pierced cam- 
panile of San Gabriel are familiar pictures. 
Poets have sung of them; artists have 
transferred their characteristics to canvas. 
Verse and picture have touched the imagi- 
nation, but the sight of these brown, 
lichened walls and of the bells still swing- 
ing in their niches reaches deeper and 
moves the heart. There are older churches 
on the Atlantic Coast, but they were built 
in communities and towns already estab- 
lished because the people wanted them. 
These old churches of our western coast 
were planted in a virgin wilderness by men 
of vision, and our first cities and towns 
grew up about them. Many of them suf- 
fered by earthquakes and all by years of 
neglect, but in their best days they were 
far finer structures than those earlier 
churches of the Atlantic Coast, and this, 
notwithstanding the infinite difficulties to 
be overcome. Lacking mill and kiln and 
quari'y the Indians were taught to supply 
these needs, the raw materials had to be 
found and where seemingly necessary ma- 
terials were wanting, the fertile brains of 
the padres found substitutes. Under 
similar circumstances our Puritan ancestors 
built churches of logs in which to worship. 
These men, by faith and infinite patience 
built massive walls of architectural beauty, 
which even after years of abuse and 
neglect have endured more than a century 
and a quarter. 

Under secularization San Gabriel suffered 
rapid deterioration. At many of the mis- 
sions the padres remained at their posts 
and as far as possible ministered to their 
scattered flocks ; one perished of starvation 
rather than forsake his Indians; but their 
lands were taken frorq them and in the end 
nearly all the missions had to be aban- 
doned. San Gabriel, once Queen of the 
Missions, suffered with the rest. In some 
cases it has taken long years of litigation 



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for the church (o repossess lierself of such 
of the missions as now belong to her; in 
(lie nieuntinie the abandoned and half- 
luined establishments have been shame- 
fully plundered. Roofing- and paving tiles 
have been carried away for secular uses. 
Kven the bells have been stolen and some 
of them put to profane uses. One of 
them was hung between two posts on a 
ranch and used to call the laborers to 
dinner. So the task of restoring again to 
spiritual uses such of these missions as 
could be so used has been a heavy one. 




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of the famous San Gabriel Valley 



Since 1908 San Gabriel has been a charge 
of the Sons of the Immaculate Heart of 
Mary. They have rebuilt the old chapel, 
]iut the church in good condition and col- 
lected as many as possible of the scattered 
relics pertaining to the church. These are 
now displayed to good advantage and are 
accessible to visitors. There is a large 
collection of paintings, many of them from 
Spain and Mexico and some of much artis- 
t ic merit ; there are old vestments, altar 
cloths, tools, records, candle-sticks, proces- 
sional crosses and many other interesting- 
things. The original, hand-hewn doors of 
the mission are preserved in one of the 
rooms. They are decorated with large 
copper nails. Two of the doors w'ere hung 
on pivoted hinges. 

Tiie baptistry is very interesting. The 
font is a huge copper bowl hammered out 
by the Indians, and resting on a massive 
stone base. There are many Indian relics, 
such as arrowheads, stone mortars and 
jjcstles, baskets, etc. 

The library contains some rare volumes 
printed early in the sixteenth century and 
one printed in 1489. Most valued of all are 



the documents. San Gabriel in fortunate 
in possessing all of her records from the 
foundation and she has many other docu- 
ments bearing the signatures of the founders 
and of Father Serra. Tliei-e are also 
pai-chmcnts of the fourteenth and fifteenth 
centuries; aiul a map of the Holy Land 
made in 1705. 

From the dim light of the church and 
the contemplation of these relics of bygone 
centuries we step out into the sunshine 
and present-day San Gabriel. The electric 
railway, electric lights, the new residence 
of the fathers and a few other modern 
buildings connect us with our own day, 
but all through the town there lingers the 
flavor of a century that is closed. Black- 
eyed children playing in the street are 
talking Spanish. Many of the houses are 
adobe. Not far from the church is the en- 
closure wherein is gi-owing a famous old 
grape vine. It was planted in 1775, 
covers 9,000 square feet and the main 
trunk is five and a half feet in circumfer- 
ence. If, according to directions on a 
placard, a rope is pulled which hangs out- 
side the enclosure, a large bell inside is rung 
which brings someone to the door in the 
wall. Ten cents admits us into this ai'bor, 
which is the entire yard over which the 
vine is trained. There is so much which 
is interesting to see in San Gabriel that 
a whole day spent there is none too much, 
especially if it is during the season of the 
Mission Play. In that case it is charming 
to bring a luncheon and eat it at one of 
the little tables under the arbor, ordering 
to drink with it grape juice made from 
the fruit of the famous vine. They will 
also furnish luncheons. 

The Mission Playhouse, where John Mc- 
Groarty's Mission Play is produced twice 
daily from December to July, is directly 
across the road from the church. (See 
Mission Play.) 

Pasadena is the next stop. Here two 
hours are allowed which gives time for an 
automobile ride about the city, through per- 
fumed Orange Grove Avenue, past the many 
beautiful homes, surrounded by grounds 
still more beautiful, and the splendid 
hotels in their park-like surroundings, to 
the famous Busch Gardens, in which there 
is time for a walk. The automobile is 
optional, but well worth the additional 
special rate of 40 cents. For further de- 
scription of Pasadena see Pasadena Auto- 
mobile Trip. From Pasadena the route 
passes through a line of attractive foot- 
hill towns nestled under the shadows of 



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the Sierra Madre. At Glendora, the east- 
ern terminus of the trip, one of the best 
equipped orange packing houses in the dis- 
trict is visited. It is an interesting sight 
to watch the washing, sorting and packing 
of the fruit, all but the wrapping done by 
machinery which almost seems to possess 
human intelligence. The process of making 
the boxes and nailing on the covers is as 
interesting as sorting the oranges. Coming 
back to Los Angeles the route passes near 
the Huntington mansion and through South 
Pasadena by many handsome bungalows 
and homes. 




Famous Cawston Ostrich Farm, strangest of sights 
and one of never-failing interest 



The last stop is at the Cawston Ostrich 
Farm, a place known East and West and 
famous, not only for its large flock of live 
birds, but for the quality of plumes pro- 
duced there. (See Ostrich Fai'ms.) Ad- 
mission to the farm is free for excursion- 
ists of this trip. Price of the trip, exclu- 
sive of automobile in Pasadena, $1.00. 

ORANGE BELT EXCURSION— This ex- 
cui'sion is a combined trip of the Salt Lake 
Railroad and Southern Pacific, including, 
like the kite-shape trip, Riverside, Redlands 
and much of the best orange and lemon-pro- 
ducing countx'y in the world. Also like the 
kite trip, the routes going and returning 
are different. From Los Angeles to River- 
side the way is by the Salt Lake Railroad. 
The rest of the route is by the Southern 
Pacific. But the loop is nai-rower than on 
the kite-shaped track. Except Riverside 
and Redlands, none of the same towns are 
passed through as on the kite-shaped track 
which runs farther north into the foothill 
region and somewhat further south. In 
the Orange Belt Excursion three hours are 
given to Riverside and it is planned so that 
luncheon mav be had at the Mission Inn. 



The trip is personally conducted by an in- 
telligent guide who points out all places of 
interest and is ready to answer all ques- 
tions. The train leaves the First Street 
Salt Lake station at 8:40 a. m. On board- 
ing the train ask for the Orange Belt Ex- 
cursion conductor. Soon the train is flying 
past truck gardens, past walnut groves 
from which are shipped annually thou- 
sands of tons of nuts, through the old Pico 
ranch of other days, past big dairies, the 
Lucky Baldwin ranch, bee ranches, the 
pink and white rose hedges of a rose 
nursery and then comes Pomona, and the 
scent of orange blossoms fills the car. Po- 
mona Valley, opening out from the eastern 
end of San Gabriel Valley, was once a 
grazing ground for the mission flocks and 
herds. Later, in the years of seculariza- 
tion, Governor Alvarado granted to Ignacio 
Palomares and Rieardo Vejar, two of his 
soldiers, 25,000 acres out of the mission 
lands. This grant was known as the 
Rancho San Jose and it included all the 
territory on which are located Pomona, 
Lordsburg, Claremont and part of San 
Dimas. Gradually after California came 
into possession of the United States this 
land was cut up into small holdings. In 
1875 Pomona was platted and the same year 
the Southern Pacific Railroad was built 
throi;gh the town. A prize of a town lot 
was offered for the best name suggested 
for the new city. The man who won sold 
his lot for $125." Today it is worth $35,000. 
Pomona has a population of 12,500, and is 
increasing rapidly. It is an up-to-date 
town in every particular with fine streets, 
pretty parks, handsome business houses, 
superior schools, including a manual train- 
ing school and a polytechnic high, and 
eighteen churches. The citrus industry is 
its greatest source of revenue, though 
deciduous fruits and small fruits are also 
extensively raised, and a large fruit can- 
nery is in operation. The raising of 
sugar beets is also profitable and there is 
a beet sugar factory with an annual output 
of 2.500 carloads. Pomona College was 
established here, but later moved to 
Claremont. 

We leave the pretty station surrounded 
by flowers and hedges and soon reach 
Ontario, a town of over 6,000 and growing 
at the rate of about ten arrivals daily. 
The land on which Ontario stands was 
bought and platted in 1882 by the Chaffay 
Brothers, two Canadians from the province 
of Ontario. It possesses the same ad- 
vantages as Pomona of soil, abundant 



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water, steam and electric trains, gas, 
electricity, fine schools and business houses, 
twenty-one churches and no saloons, which 
are forbidden for all time, every deed 
carrying the prohibitive clause. Euclid 
Avenue is the main thoroughfare. It 
rises gradually from a level of less than a 
tliousand feet at the city hall to an alti- 
tude of twenty-flve hundred. This high- 
way is two hundred feet wide and seven 
miles long. The electric railroad tracks, 
shaded by beautiful pepper and grevilla 
trees, occupy the center. On either side 
are palm-bordered carriage drives. Beau- 
tiful homes and orange groves face the 
avenue on the right and left. From the 
top of Euclid Avenue is a magnificent 
view. The air is usually so clear that 
mountains a hundred miles away, and the 
islands in the Pacific Ocean, may be seen. 
Likewise looking southward one sees the 
Santa Ana range; to the southeast, Mount 
San Jacinto and to the west, the San 
Gabriel mountains. Ontario, like Pomona, 
is traversed by the tracks of the Sunset 
Route of the Southern Pacific, by the main 
line of the Santa Fe and by the San Pedro, 
Los Angeles and Salt Lake railroads. 

The packing house of the Citrus Fruit 
Association is one of the largest in the 
State. Deciduous fruit is extensively 
raised and there is an enormous canning 
factory Avith a yearly output of 5,000,000 
cans. The Pacific Electric Heating Com- 
pany manufacture here the "Hot Point" 
iron and electric percolators and there 
are many other industries. 

We pass through part of the big Chino 
Ranch, once embracing 50,000 aci'es. The 
land is now largely given over to walnuts, 
sugar beets and alfalfa. Then Wineville, 
the shipping point for a great wine indus- 
try is reached. The soil looks like barren 
sand, but flourishing vineyards line the 
track on the right and on the left for 
miles. Mt. San Antonio of the Sierra 
Madre range is seen in the distance. Just 
before reaching Riverside the Santa Ana 
river is crossed on a beautiful concrete 
bridge. 

At Riverside an automobile meets the 
train. The ride is optional, of course, but 
a dollar and a half and an hour and a 
half were never spent to happier advan- 
tage than in the drive through the beau- 
tiful streets of Riverside and over the 
smooth rock-bordered road that -winds 
around Roubidoux Mountain, which lies 
on the route of El Camino Real. It is 
probable that the padres passed along 




A type of the roads that surround Los Angeles, lead- 
ing through the domain of the Orange 

its base many times on their journeyings 
from one mission to another, and a cross 
has been erected on the summit to the 
memory of the Padre Presidente, Junipero 
Serra. At sunrise on Easter morning a 
unique and beautiful act of woi'ship takes 
place at the foot of this cross. Those 
who participate gather in the early dawn, 
climb the mountain and with the first 
bright rays of the sun lift up their voices 
in prayer and praise. After this solemn 
service, led in 1913 by Dr. Henry Van 
Dyke, they repair to the Mission Inn for 
an Easter breakfast. The view from the 
slopes of Roubidoux is unsurpassed, one 
is tempted to say, but that must be said 
of so many elevations in California that 
the adjective is dangerously overworked, 
yet this bi;t feebly expresses these thou- 
sands of acres of blossoming and fruited 
orange trees at our feet, spreading far 
away on either hand, beautiful homes in 
the foreground, flowers evei-ywhere, and 
beyond but brought near by the crystal- 
line atmosphere, the foothills, green or 
brown, and then the blue mountains with 
their snow-whitened summits. 

Magnolia and Victoria avenues are two 
famous and beautiful drives of Riverside. 
Sherman Institute, a government Indian 
school, is on Magnolia Avenue and in- 
cluded in the itinerary. 

Riverside is a city of about 18,000 pop- 
ulation, beautiful in itself as well as beau- 
tiful in situation. It has handsome streets, 
bordered by fine trees and lighted by 
artistic conci'ete electroliers; it has splen- 
did public schools, a handsome county 
court house, public library, Woman's Club 
House, Young Men's Christian Association 
building, twenty-five churches and no 
saloons. Charming homes in beautiful 
grounds are on every side. Riverside is 



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sometimes called the Mission City, not 
because there was ever a mission there, 
but because the builders had the wisdom 
to adopt some of the chief characteristics 
of mission architecture for their public 
buildings. The public library building 
and the beautiful Glenwood Mission Inn 
are excellent examples. When the drive 
is over about an hour and a half is left 
for luncheon and the Glenwood. Long 
enough to leave us unhurried, but not 
nearly long enough for enjoyment of this 
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Riverside is left at 1:50 and twenty 
minutes later the enterprising town of 
Colton is reached. There are granite and 
marble quarries near and the industries 
of the city are varied. 

Redlands is reached at 2 :35. Here the 
stop is an hour and thirty-five minutes. 
Carriages meet the train for the drive 
to Smiley Heights and about the city. 
The price is $1.00. Redlands is another 
beautiful city with about 12,000 popula- 
tion. Wide parkways edge the streets 
with a double row of trees and ornamental 
shrubs. The boulevards have tree-shaded 
parkways down the center. Beautiful 
residences abound. The University of 
Redlands has $500,000 invested in build- 
ings and equipment, with a campus of 
sixty-three acres. There are many churches 
and no saloons. Redlands has eighteen 
packing houses, shipping 5,000 carloads 
of oranges annually. Olive products and 
dried deciduous fruits are other industries. 
There are thirteen parks in the city, either 
public or open to the public. Chief of 
these is the six hundred-acre park of A. 
K. Smiley, known as Smiley Heights. 
This is a beautiful blending of nature 
and the landscape architects art, being 
not only beautiful in itself, but affording 
a wondrous panoramic view of the valley 
beneath and the distant mountains. Casa 
Loma is the handsome and commodious 
hotel of Redlands, another of Southern 
California's delightful inns. 

The route back is by way of the South- 
ern Pacific and mainly through another 
series of towns. We pass Loma Linda 
four miles from Redlands, a delightful 
and helpful sanitarium, for tired, over- 
strenuous men and women. We pass Col- 
ton, Ontario and Pomona again, then the 
road diverges and we go through Lords- 
burg, San Dimas and Covina, all centers 



of the citrus industry. Covina is built 
on one of the "Ijucky" Baldwin ranches. 
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AMERICAN TOURS (.\il Expense Paid 
I'lan) to Santa iJarbara, Del Monte, Santa 
Cruz Big Ti-ees, San Jose, Leland Stanford 
University at Palo Alto, and San Francisco. 

First-class railway tickets routed via 
Southern Pacific between l^os Angeles and 
San Francisco are good on these tours and 
may be used in conjunction with the 
special tour tickets issued by the American 
Tours Company covering the expense at the 
hotels, side trips l)y carriage, automobile 
and trolley. Hotels en route are operated 
on the American i)hin, which includes all 
meals. 

Tlie American Tours are operated by the 
American Tours Company with Mr. C. W. 
Winstanley as manager of tours. Mr. Win- 
stanley has for many years been identified 
with the touring business on the Pacific 
Coast and is well and favorably known by 
many tourists and travelers to California. 

The tours operated by this company are 
high class but inexpensive, and are dis- 
tinctly ditfei'ent from the generally accepted 
term "personally conducted"; this is ac- 
centuated by the repetition of the trips 
fi-om time to time bj- many of its patrons — 
a high tribute to the efficiency and service 
of the American Tours Company. 

The conductors of these tours wear no 
uniform or other insignia that might serve 
to indicate that American Tour parties may 
be other than individual travelers or pleas- 
ure seekers; a jDolicy that is followed 
throughout the journey, and is a feature 
thoroughly appreciated by travelers of 
experience. 

At the places visited en route ample time 
and opportunity is allowed for siyhtseeing, 
together with the needful rest afforded by 
the several most excellent hotels at which 
the parties are "at home" from day to day. 

The first visit after leaving Los Angeles 
is at Santa Barbara for twenty-four hours 
at the famous Hotel Potter, a charming 
and popular hotel of mission style archi- 
tecture, facing Santa Barbara Channel with 
a chain of islands in the distance seemingly 
afloat on the surface of the sapphire sea. 
Thei'e is an infinite variety of things to do 
aiul see at Santa Barbara: first perhaps in 
interest is llie Mission founded in 178() ; 



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best preserved of all the missions, it holds 
especial interest as the place where the 
Franciscan friars still do militant duty for 
their faith, and, sandaled and corded as of 
yore, walk in their shady corridors and 
cloisters and hold Mass in the church which 
first held Indian converts who helped to 
rear its towers. 

After luncheon on the day of arrival a 
visit to the Mission is made, reached 
through the town and its immediate suburbs 
where homes are set about with roses, 
palms and flowering- trees and shrubs ; 
thence continuing along the level boulevards 
beside the blue ocean, through the exquisite 
Vale of Montecito to Miramai', where the 
homes seem smothered in bloom. 

The next visit, following a delightful i-ide 
along the ocean shoi'e, through beautiful 
and fertile valleys, through picturesque 
mountains and shady parks of live-oak, is 
Del Monte and the great hotel of the same 
name ; here another rest covering thirty-six 
hours is enjoyed. 

''Hotel Del Monte is situated within a 
beautiful park beside the sea — a jewel of 
the landscape-gardener's art that ranks 
among the finest in the world." 

Included in the itinerary at Del Monte is 
the famous "Seventeen-Mile Drive" by 
automobile, through Monterey viewing the 
many places of note and historical interest, 
thence through the great Del Monte Forest 
and skirting the shoi'e line for many miles 
around the Monterey Peninsula. 

"Here California's history began. The 
old custom house, where the American flag 
Avas first raised by Commodore Sloat in 
1846, still stands beside the bay, its interior 
being now fitted out as a most intei'esting 
museum of early day history. On the hill 
is Colton Hall, the first capitol of California, 
where the State constitution was drafted 
and first legislative bodies met. 

"All about are other things full of historic 
interest. Robert Louis Stevenson's house 
in which the famous author wrote many of 
his beloved books; the fii'st theater in Cali- 
foi'nia, where Jenny Lind sang in early 
days; Washington Hotel, once a Spanish 
barracks, later on the fashionable hotel of 
tlie town, now almost a ruin; the first sawed 
lumber house in California, made of lumber 
brought by sail ship around the Horn and 
still standing; the first brick house ever 
built in the State; the old whaling station 
of which Dana wrote in his early book 
"Two Years Before the Mast." Scattered 
through back streets and about the town are 
quaint adobes, flower embowered homes, 



a world of things to interest, amuse and en- 
tertain, all spread out here before one if 
they will but take the time to listen and 
learn. " 

From Del Monte the way leads to Santa 
Cruz, a thriving seadside city and a popu- 
lar summer resort noted for its fine bathing 
beach. 

From Santa Cruz (by automobile in fair 
weather) the journey continues through the 
Santa Cruz Mountains by way of the scenic 
San Lorenzo Canyon to the Big Trees, one 
of the few gToves of redwood in the State; 
these mighty giants of the forest that have 
defied the elements for ages numbered in 
thousands of years, are still full of life 
and vigor. Visitors to California should 
not fail to visit this wonderful gi'ove of 
giants. 

At San Jose and the Hotel Vendome an- 
other visit of twenty-four hours is made, 
including a side trip through the great 
Santa Clara Valley, one of the largest fruit- 
producing valleys in the world and contain- 
ing millions of bearing trees. The conclu- 
sion of this splendid side trip is at Palo 
Alto, the seat of Leland Stanford Junior 
University, endowed by the late Senator 
Leland Stanford and Mrs. Stanford in 
memory of their son, Leland Stanford, 
Junior. It is a remarkable institution in 
many ways: the beautiful buildings, the 
great campus, the magnificent chapel, a 
work of art in Italian mosaics and repre- 
senting an expenditure of more than a mil- 
lion dollars, must be seen to be fully appre- 
ciated. The university is endowed for 
thirty million dollars and is co-educational. 

From Palo Alto a short ride to San Fran- 
cisco concludes this splendid trip which has 
afforded the rare opportunity of visiting 
the beauty-spots of the ocean coast country 
of California and the enjoyment of the 
splendid service of the Road of a Thousand 
Wonders, the Southern Pacific, and of the 
great hotels en route, to say nothing of 
the American Tours (in California). 
Travelers and tourists to California are in- 
vited to join these parties. The number of 
persons in each party is limited, and it is 
urged that reservations be made as early 
as possible. Information and tickets at 
Ames Brothers Company Travel Bureau, 
025 South Spring Street, Los Angeles, Cal. 

In choosing the combined electric car 
and automobile route to Pasadena, take a 
short line or Oak Knoll car on Main 
Street, or at the Pacific Electric station 
at Sixth and Main streets. Stop at the 
Sun Drug Company Store, Colorado and 



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Raymond sti'ects, Pasadena. The big blue 
automobile leaves this store three times 
daily, at 10 a. m., 2 and 3:30 p. m. The 
automobile covers about the spme course 
in Pasadena as the trip by electric car, 
including- the principal features of the city 
and a stop of twenty minutes at Busch's 
Gardens. It consumes an hour and fifteen 
minutes and is twelve miles long. The 
price for the whole round-trip is seventy- 
five cents. 

SAN FERNANDO VALLEY TRIP— 
This excursion may be made by electric car 
or by automobile. The route lies through 
the Cahuenga Pass into the San Fernando 
Valley, through Lankei'shim, Van Nuys 
and other pretty towns to the old San 
Pernando Mission and to the big dam of 
the Owens River Aqueduct. 

The electric car starts from the Hill 
Street station of the Pacific Electric (be- 
tween Fourth and Fifth streets). In leav- 
ing Los Angeles, Angel's Flight is passed, 
also the forest of oil derricks in the 
northern part of the city. The car i3asses 
through the beautiful residence streets of 
Colegrove and Hollywood, then the way 
leads over the Santa Monica mountains 
through the picturesque Cahuenga Pass 
(see Cahuenga Pass and Cahuenga Valley) 
into the wide-spread San Fernando Valley, 
a wonderful country, level as a floor from 
mountain range to mountain range. The 
soil holds moisture to a remarkable degree 




Tile-paved corridor, San Fernando Mission 



and is wonderfully fertile. Once it was 
thought to be suitable only for grain; now 
it is cut up into small holdings and 
planted to peaches, peai'S, apricots, plums 
and walnuts, as well as to citrus fruit. 
Around the town of Lankershim the peach 
is extensively cultivated. Thousands of 
young trees have been set out. Lanker- 
shim is one of the older towns of the val- 
ley, but in improvements is as modern as 
the newest. Fruit raising and canning are 
the principal industries. There is a pretty 
park near the Southern Pacific station. 
Van Nuys is soon reached, a well-grown 
city not three years old, cut out of a grain 
field, built to order and built right. The 
buildings are all excellent, many of them 
faced with white enameled brick, which has 
given Van Nuys the name of ''The White 
City." Headquarters of the American 
Beet Sugar Company were established here 
for the cultivation of sugar beets. Many 
acres in the vicinity are planted to beets. 
During the season the district around 
Lankershim and Van Nuys furnishes the 
Los Angeles market daily with forty tons 
of watermelons of the finest quality. Sur- 
rounding the town in all directions are 
handsome country homes. The Southern 
Pacific maintains a very pretty park near 
its railroad station. The beautiful Sher- 
man Boulevard is one of the charming 
features of this valley. It is 15 miles long 
and 170 feet wide, with wide parking on 
both sides, planted with trees and orna- 
mental shrubs. It accommodates both the 
electric road and an automobile driveway 
smooth as a floor and furnished all the 
way with ornamental electroliers. 

From Van Nuys the road turns to the 
old San Fernando Mission. This is now in 
private hands, but permission is granted 
to visit the ruins, which are very exten- 
sive. They have been sufficiently restored 
by the Landmarks Club to keep from fur- 
ther deterioration. 

Several of the buildings are standing, 
the chapel and the so-called monasteiy, 
and parts of others. The fine tile-paved 
arched corridor before the monastery is 
intact. In the courtyard before it is a 
lai'ge fountain and basin. The deep, cool 
shadows of the coi'ridor and the splashing 
water must have been refreshing to priest 
or traveler as he journeyed from mission 
to mission, the only hospices in that 
sparsely settled land. The main building 
coutains many rooms, a library, refectory, 
kitchen, and others below stairs whose espe- 
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bers above. Portions of old adobe walls here 
and there suggest the original plan of the 
establishment and demonstrate more than 
any other of the missions the great scope 
of the work undertaken by the padres. 
The buildings aggregated more than a mile 
and a half in length. Like sentinels guard- 
ing the buildings, stand two century-old 
palm trees visible at a great distance. In 
1791 Father Lasuen, following out the de- 
sign of Father Serra to establish a chain 
of missions about a day's journey apart, 
selected a spot in this fertile valley and 
with Father Dumetz founded, in honor of 
Ferdinand V, King of Castile and Aragon, 
the Mission of San Fernando Rey de 
Espagna. The initial expense was borne 
jointly by Charles IV of Spain and the 
Marquis of Branceforte. It soon became 
successful both from a spiritual and ma- 
terial point of view. In 1826 an inventory 
shows that, besides immense flocks and 
herds, there were in the warehouse $90,000 
in specie and merchandise. After seculari- 
zation an immense tract of land which con- 
tained the mission buildings fell into the 
hands of General Andres Pico, who made 
the treaty with Fremont at the Caliuenga 
Pass in 1847. In 184G General Pico sold 



the ranch to Eulogia F. de Celis for 
$14,000. For many years though divided 
among different later owners, the ranch 
was one immense wheat field, twenty 
thousand acres in wheat being no un- 
common sight. Later divisions have re- 
duced the size of the holdings to small 
farms, except some sixteen thousand 
acres now belonging to the San Fernando 
Mission Land Company, which surround 
the old San Fernando Mission buildings. 
The padres, with their usual good judg- 
ment, selected for the mission lands the 
almost frostless slopes of the north side 
of the valley. Even Avith their crude 
methods of agriculture the soil was won- 
derfully productive and San Fernando was 
knoAvn as among the most prosperous of 
the missions. 

After going through buildings, visiting 
the old graveyard of the padres, noticing 
the remains of the cactus hedge and 
adobe wall that once surrounded the en- 
closure, one may view the huge dam of 
the Owens river aqueduct, part of the 
great engineering work which is to sup- 
ply Los Angeles with water. (See Aque- 
duct). Owensmouth is another brand new 
town and is destined, in the development 



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6129 CARLOS AVENUE 
Hollywood, California 

in the beautiful foothill suburb of Los Angeles. 

A select School for Young Boys. 

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Out-door school rooms and sleeping porches. 

Well equipped gymnasium and playground. 

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Each room with Private Bath. All Outside Rooms. 
Rates $L50 per Day and Up European Plan 

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very moderate prices. 

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YOUNG ORANGE AND LEMON GROVES ON SAN FERNANDO MISSION LANDS— FIRST 
RESULTS OF OWENS RIVER WATER 



of the valley, to become an imiDortant 
shipping point. Sherman Way, the beau- 
tiful boulevard mentioned above, passes 
through the town and forms its main 
street. From Owensmouth the return 
trip begins. If it is the right season a 
stop should be made among the poppy 
fields where one may have the pleasure 
of picking all he wishes to carry. Return- 
ing through Hollywood, a stop shoi;ld be 
made at the artistic Arts and Crafts 
Shop. 

SANTA CATALINA ISLAND— Twenty 
miles off the Los Angeles harbor is 
Santa Catalina Island, twenty-three miles 
long, with an average width of four miles 
in the southern part, and two miles in 
the northern. Its highest point is three 
thousand feet above the sea. About five 
miles from the northern end is a de- 
pression I'unning nearly aci'oss the island, 
forming a cove on either side. The con- 
necting strip of land is only about thirty 
feet high, and hills rising from two to 
three thousand feet on each side make it 
appear at a distance like two vei'y high 
islands. There are several fair harbors 
on the coast; inland are deep gorges, 
mountains and rocky precipices. The cli- 
mate is mild and equable, with little fog 
and low humidiiy. The island possesses 
many attractions; mountain drives, pic- 
turesque golf links, salt water bathing, 
sulphur springs, hunting and fishing 
grounds, and the wonderful marine gar- 
dens, which are revealed through the 
glass-bottomed boats. Avalon, a pic- 



turesque town around the crescent-shaped 
harbor, is a very popular summer resort, 
and no visit to Los Angeles is complete 
Avithout a trip to Santa Catalina Island. 
The daily steamer leaves Los Angeles 
harbor at 10 a. m. (subject to change) 
and reaches Avalon at 12:30. 

The trip to the harbor may be made 
either by Pacific Electric (Sixth and Main 
streets station). Southern Pacific Railroad 
(Arcade station), or Salt Lake route 
(First Street station). The shortest time 
is made by Pacific Electric, which leaves 
at 9:15 (subject to change). The steamer 
leaves Avalon on the return trip at 3:30 
p. m. This gives time to visit the aquai'- 
ium, bath house, curio stores and other 
places of interest, to see the marine gar- 
dens and to explore a little. For fish- 
ing, coaching and other pleasures a longer 
stay must be made. The Hermosa and 
Cabrillo are two safe ocean-going steamers 
which make the daily passage between 
the mainland and the island. The decks 
are Avell provided with seats, for almost 
every one wishes to sit outside. The 
vessel steams past the great breakwater 
of San Pedro harbor, past Dead Man's 
Island (so named because soldiers slain 
in the battle at Dominguez between Gilles- 
pie and the Spanish were buried there), 
rounds the lighthouse and reaches the 
open ocean, heading for that misty range 
of mountains that skirts the horizon. 
Bluer and bluer grows the water, and 
clearer aiid clearer the mountains emerge 
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outlines and rugged, wrinkled sides are 
plainly visible. A faint cloud wreaths 
the highest peak and a pearly drift is thf 
background against which they stand. 
Soon the semi-circular Bay of Avalon is 
well defined and, as the vessel draws 
nearer, the piers and background ot 
hotels and curio stores with houses climb- 
ing the hill behind. In a moment the 
steamer is surrounded by a fleet of small 
boats, their owners shouting through 
megaphones that theirs, be it motor-boat, 
or oar-propelled, offers the only means of 
seeing the submarine gardens successfully. 
A larger boat, equipped with a search- 
light, announces an evening trip to the 
playground of the flying fish, or a day- 
light trip to the seal rocks. A Hawaiian 
surf rider dashes past on his siirf board 
tied to a motor-boat. Sun-browned boys 
are begging for coins which they dive 
for when thrown into the water. Far 
down into the clear depths one can fol- 
low the shining silver dime before it is 
seized by the diver, who never misses it. 
Amidst this crowd of boats and boys 
accompanied by the shouting megaphones, 
the vessel draws up to the dock. Every- 
one is hungry for luncheon and as soon 
as that is over, those whose stay is brief 
hasten to the pier for a glass-bottomed 
boat. The Emperor, a large motor-boat 
with a glass bottom, is making ready to 
go out, with a load, but though this 
makes a longer trip, many prefer the 
small boats. The marine gardens are 
quickly reached and the wonders revealed 
through the clear water are never to be 
forgotten. The boatman tells you the 
popular names for these waving masses 
of marine foliage, as different from each 
other as the shrubbery in a garden of 



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the Orient and Occident find safe anchor 



Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, most famous fishing 
resort in the world, 27 miles from the mainland 

earth. There are ladies' feather boas, 
ribbon sea weed, sea tomatoes, sea heather, 
mermaids' hair or dulse, and iodine kelp 
like trees, bearing silver balls as fruit, 
waving gently to and fro as the oars stir 
the water. And in and out are darting 
gold perch and blue perch and electric 
perch, all colors of the rainbow and bril- 
liant like jewels. There are sea cucum- 
bers, too, and sea urchins. Here and 
there the water is phosphorescent. It is 
a fascinating vision. Returning to the 
town, the aquarium is to be visited, the 
curio stores and other interesting spots. 
The fishing at Catalina Island is famous. 
The leaping tuna, weighing from eighty 
to two hundred and fifty pounds is the 
hardest fighting game fish known, and is 
caught with rod and reel only in Catalina 
waters. Sword fish, also splendid fighters, 
are caught here, albicore and yellowtail, 
black and white sea bass and many other 
fish. Power launches, especially built and 
equipped for sea fishing, can always be 
secured at Avalon. 

Besides fishing the Catalina wild goat 
offers good sport for those who enjoy 
hunting. The mountain coach rides are 
another diversion and afford Avonderful 
views of the island and sea. Golf and 
tennis entertain many, and mountain 
climbing yields glorious views. Boating 
and bathing are other attractions. But 
all these things are for those who spend 
more than a few hours on the island. 
Another sea trip of two and a half hours 
and the steamer is rounding San Pedro 
breakwater again, 6 :45 and the Pacific 
Electric car enters Los Angeles. The 
price of the round trip is $2.75. The 
fai'e for the glass-bottomed boat is fifty 
cents. 



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The Burlington Apartments 



NINTH AND BURLINGTON^ 




In the Heart of the Westlake District 

Embracing Every Down-to-Date Feature 
for Making Home Life a Pleasure 



Phones in All Apartments. 
Service. 



Fine Car 



Phones: 10497; Wilshire 497. Managed by the Owner 



The Rooms are Large, Well Ventilated 
and Beautifully Furnished 

The Rates; Most Reasonable 

SINGLE APARTMENTS 
Are from $30 to $35 by the Month 

DOUBLE APARTMENTS 
Arc from $45 to $75 by the Month 

Special Weekly Rates o n Applicatio n 
Take Ninth Street Cars on Spring Street 



Immense Lobby, Ball Room, Porches and Roof Garden 

— Enjoyable Entertainments Are Provided by the Management, Including Dancing, Cards and Musicales — 



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This beautiful 
specimen of 
modern Aztec 
architecture is 
the finest tour- 
ist hotel within 
•walking dis- 
tance, yet re- 
moved from 
confusion of 
busy thorough- 
fares. It is de- 
lightfully situ- 
ated within five 
minutes' walk 
of business and 
theatre dis- 
tricts. Ele- 
gantly furnish- 
ed, completely 
equipped, cafe 
excellent, lobby beautiful. Just the place for particular people who appreciate Hotel Service at moderate 
prices. Daily rates $1 .00 and $1.50. Private bath $1.50 and $2.00. Attractive weekly and monthly rates. 



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TRIANGLE TROLLEY TRIP— This is 
one of the Pacific Electric trips, an all- 
(hiy trip of one hundred miles for $1.00, 
with a two-hour stop at Long Beach and 
u short stop at Santa Ana. For thirty 
miles the route is along the ocean shore 
and it includes ten beach resorts. The 
last car leaves the Pacific Electric station 
at Sixth and Main streets at 9:30 a. m. 
Fi'om Los Angeles the way is southeast 
through large dairy farms and agricul- 
tural sections towards Santa Ana. To 
the north are the walnut groves of the 
district surrounding Whittier and the 
train passes by the Olinda oil district. 
Near Santa Ana are fields of sugar beets 
and several great beet sugar factories. 
Santa Ana is the county seat of Orange 
County, a. charming city of 12,000 popula- 
tion. As in nearly all Southern Cali- 
fornia towns, the public school system 
is abreast of the population, with seven 




A street in Santa Ana, the ruling city of the vegetable 
and sugar beet kingdom adjacent to Los Angeles 



grammar schools, two high schools, Do- 
mestic Science and Manual Training 
School and plans proposed for a $200,000 
polytechnic school. There are churches 
of all the leading denominations with 
fine church homes, club houses and lodge 
buildings, a handsome court house, a 
library building, and a progressive busi- 
ness section. There are several large 
sugar factories, a cannery, packing houses, 
planing mills and lumber yards, and 
various other industries. The ocean, only 
twelve miles away, tempers the climate, 
and extremes of heat or cold are un- 
known. All kinds of semi-tropical fruits 
are raised in the vicinity in great abun- 
dance; figs, grapes, olives, dates and 
guavas; and Orange County is famous for 




A near view of the celery industry of Orange County, 
near Los Angeles 



its Valencia and St. Michael oranges, to 
which it seems peculiarly adapted. 

Santa Ana is the commercial center of 
the greatest beet sugar industry in the 
world, and it leads all other towns in the 
shii^ments of English walnuts. After 
boarding the train again the way turns 
south and strikes the coast at Huntington 
Beach. Southeast of Huntington Beach 
are other beaches not included in the or- 
ganized trips, but easily reached, Newport 
Beach, Balboa and Laguna Beach are 
some of them. 

At Huntington Beach the route lies be- 
tween the ocean and a row of palm trees. 
Here are pi'etty summer houses and hand- 
some all-the-year homes, and Huntington 
Inn, a charming hotel. From here the 
way skirts the shore in a northwesterly 
direction, passing the club house and duck 
shooting preserves of the Bolsa Chico Gun 
Club, and through numerous beach re- 
sorts, Sunset Beach, Seal Beach, Alarai- 
tos Bay and Naples an^nig them. Naples 








Long Beach, city of the Silvery Strand, beautiful 
homes, marvelous growth and industry 



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One hundred and sixty (outside) rooms. Seventy- 
two apartments recently completed and handsomely 
furnished. Large porch, sun parlor, beautiful lobby, 
electric elevator, vacuum cleaner, private halls, 
dressing and bath rooms, disappearing beds on 
doors, with large mirrors m panel, kitchens, steam 
heat and cross ventilation in every apartment. 
Good service and reasonable prices. 

MILLS &., TALBOTT, Owners and Managers 
HOME 10469-MAIN 603 



Stop at 

Sel\vyn Apartments 

1521 SHATTO STREET 

Between 6lh and 7lh Streets 

Near Westlake Park 

Ten minutes from Broadway 
Take 6th or 7th Street Cars to Valencia or Union Streets 

Reasonable Rates 

IDA C. HANSEN, Manager 




When in 

LOS ANGELES 

It will be to your comfort and interest to come to the 

Hotel Westmoore 

SEVENTH at FRANCISCO 

The closest down-town family and tourist hotel in Los 
Angeles. Three blocks west of Robinson's New Department 
Store. Outside the city traffic, yet within a few minutes 
walking distance of the shopping and theatre district. 

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has a five-mile system of canals, whose 
banks are dotted with pretty homes, a 
modern hotel and two cafes noted for 
their Sunday dinners. The San Gabriel 
river flows into the ocean at Naples. The 
palm-bordered streets of Bay City look 
very attractive as the train passes on to 




Salboa Island and Newport Bay, where one may find 
ideal still and rough water boating, bathing and fishing 



Long Beach, where a tAvo hours' stop is 
made. Luncheon is the tirst considera- 
tion and there are many good cafes near 
at hand. A short way up the street is 
the beautiful Virginia Hotel, where food 
and service are of the best. This hotel 
has a superb location overlooking the 
ocean, and is entered by a palm-bordered 
approach. With ivied walls, terraced 
sunken gardens, a paved tennis court with 
the ocean rolling on its borders, it is a 
most attractive phiee. (See Notable Hotels.) 
Long Beach is a popular summer resort, 
but also a thriving city of permanent 
homes. The population is about 45,000. 
It has direct communication with Los 
Angeles by the Southern Pacific Railroad 
and San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt 
Lake Railroad, as well as by Pacific Elec- 
tric. Its industries are varied, including 
a ship building plant, a glass insulator 
factory, the Star Drilling Machinery Com- 
pany, large lumber yards and the Union 
Oil Refinery. There are twenty-seven 
churches, some with congregations of over 
a thousand and nearly all with handsome 
buildings. The fine school buildings in- 
clude a new $250,000 Polytechnic High 
School. There is a beautiful public li- 
brary building set in a pretty park and 
there are miles and miles of beautiful 
homes lining paved and shaded streets. 
Ocean Front Boulevard extends for five 
miles along the bluffs over the beach. 



The Beach Drive extends for ten miles 
along the bay shore. Five parks, besides 
the children's playgrounds, provide rec- 
reation for the permanent population, 
while the summer residents find delight 
in the beach, the Walk of Ten Thousand 
Lights, and the Pike, with its bath house 
and hundreds of amusement features. 
There is a $100,000 double decked amuse- 
ment pier running out into the sea eigh- 
teen hundred feet, at whose outer end is 
an immense glassed-in sun parlor; at the 
land end is a gi'eat auditorium, over- 
looking the Pike and beach, thronged with 
sight-seers and pleasui'e seekers. 

After leaving Long Beach the train passes 
through Wilmington and on to San Pedro 
;ind Point Firmin. These are all described 
in alphabetical order in the body of this 
book. A considerable stop is made at 
San Pedro, giving time for a walk and 
lest in the pretty park which borders 
Point Firmin along the ocean cliff. Then 
the route turns north to Los Angeles, 
passing through Compton and other pretty, 
little towns to Watts, and from there on 
over the same route as in the morning. 
Los Angeles is reached about 6 p. m. For 
all the Pacific Electric trips, it is well 
to engage seats beforehand, though it is 
not usually strictly necessary. They may 
be engaged by telephoning to the infor- 
mation bureau in the Pacific Electric 
Building at Sixth and Main streets, or by 
applying in person. Besides these special 




Long Beach Sanitarium, the famous health resort 
of California 



organized trips, there are other interest- 
ing towns and localities to be visited in 
the vicinity of Los Angeles. It is pos- 
sible to see nearly the whole country in 
this vicinity with great ease by the Pacific 
Electric system. 



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"Where the Easterner Meets the Westerner" 

NEW SOUTHERN HOTEL 

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA 

4TT Large, Airy 
j\ Rooms, Beauti- 
fully furnished, Per- 
fectly Ventilated; 
Equipped with every 
Modern Conveni- 
ence; Beautiful Lob- 
by and Ladies* 
Reception Parlor. 
fl Under the per- 
sonal supervision of 
the owner, the New 
Southern offers its 
guests the service 
and comfort of the 
highest-priced hotels 
at very popular 
rates. 

RATES 
$1.00 PER DAY UP 

MOST CENTRALLY LOCATED- s T X T H AND B STREETS 




Our Bi^ Free Auto Bus Meets Trains and Steamers 



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THE CARNEGIE APARTMENTS 




SAN DIEGO'S ONLY APARTMENT HOTEL I'h^SSS '."ndTusS^sTrSI 

within one block of Ihe best cafes and cafeterias. THE CARNEGIE is fashioned after the larger eastern hostelries. giving 
unexcelled hotel service, and yet having for those who prefer, a cozy apartment with kitchenette, living, bed and bath room. 
(This combination is especially suited to people traveling with children), A beautifully situated sun parlor, from which a 
clear view of San Diego and Ihe bay, in connection with our billiard and music room, affords the best of entertainment for all. 
Elevator service. Phones free in every room. Steam heat (continuously). A beautiful lobby on first floor. Under same 
ownership as new Southern Hotel. 



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No one who visits Los Angeles should fail 
to go to San Dieg'o, and this for several im- 
portant reasons. First, because the trip 
is a delightful one whether by water or 
b}' rail, and if it is made by rail there 
are two of the most important and most 
interesting of the old missions to be vis- 
ited on the way. Second, to all Ameri- 
cans, and especially to Californians, San 
Diego should possess an absorbing interest, 
as it was here that California history 
began. Here Cabrillo, the first of the 
Spanish navigators, landed in 1542, Vis- 
eaino followed early in the next century 
and here in 1769 was planted the first 
of the Franciscan missions in Alta Cali- 
fornia, the first white man's settlement 
on our western coast. Third, San Diego 
is in itself a very attractive city, with 
its equable, sunny climate of moderate 



temperature; its handsome buildings and 
charming homes; its picturesque situation, 
rising gradually from the bay which it 
half encircles ; and with the many delight- 
ful excursions of which it is the base. And 
fourth, because it is the site of a unique 
two-year 'round exposition which did 
commemorate in 1915 the opening of 
the Panama Canal and calls the attention 
of the world to its own situation as 
the first American port of call. The 
beautiful buiklings of this exi)osition are 
located in Balboa Park, wliicli is in tlie 
heart of the city. 

For all these reasons the tourist can 
readily see that he cannot afford to over- 
look San Diego. From Los Angeles the 
Avater trip may be made by either of two 
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pany leave Los Angeles harbor Wednes- 
day and Saturday mornings at 10:30, ar- 
riving in San Diego at 5 p. m. Return- 
ing they leave San Diego Wednesday and 
Saturday evenings at 11 o'clock, reach- 
ing San Pedro at 6 a. m. Thursday and 
Sunday mornings. 

The Los Angeles ticket oCfice of the 
Pacific Coast Steamship Company is at 540 
South Spring Street. The San Diego 
oflice is at Third and D sti'cets. 

The steamers Harvard and Yale of the 
Pacific Navigation Company leave Los 
Angeles harbor for San Diego at 3 :30 
[). m. on Thursdays and Saturdays, arriv- 
ing in San Diego at 8:30 p. m. Return- 
ing they leave San Diego from the Santa 
Fe wharf on Fridays and Sundays at 8 
a. m., arriving in San Pedro at 1 p. m. 
The Los Angeles ticket office of this com- 
panv is at 611 South Spring Street, and 
the" San Diego office at 1200 D Street. 

The steamers of both these lines are 
handsome, commodious vessels and the 
short ocean trip is a delightful one for 
those who love the water. It affords a 
fine view of Los Angeles harbor, Dead 
Man's Island, of Terminal Island, where 
is the club house of the South Coast Yacht 
Club, of Point Firmin and then the 
steamer passes the great breakwater and 
is in the open sea. Entering San Diego 
harbor a few hours later the steamer 
glides between the breakwater and the 
long arm of Point Loma. It passes under 
the guns of Fort Rosecrans, rounds the 
aviation field of North Island (not really 
an island), passes the opening of Span- 
ish Bight, which so nearly cuts North 
Island from Coronado, and brings up at 
San Diego. 

The trip by rail takes about four hours, 
but at least one stop should be made en 
route, at San Juan Capistrano. The mis- 
sion being close by the station a stop- 
over between trains gives ample time to 
enjoy it. Unfortunately, there is no 
schedule by which both San Juan Capis- 
trano and San Luis Rey can be visited, 
and San Diego reached from Los Angeles, 
in the same day. San Luis Rey is about 
four miles from the station at Oceanside 
and there is not time between afternoon 
trains to take the drive, visit the mission 
and return, so, unless one wishes to stay 
overnight at Oceanside, it is better to 
visit one mission on the way to San Diego 
and the other on the way back. If the 
time can be spared, or if one is on pleas- 



ure l)ont, a stay overnight, or for a 
longer period, at the delightful Stratford 
Inn at Del Mar will repay one. From 
the train one has glimpses of this charm- 
ing hotel facing the sea. 

The Santa Fe coast line serves San 
Diego from Los Angeles. For the vai'ious 
trains it is best to consult a time table. 
A convenient train leaves Los Angeles 
at 9:10 a. m. Almost as soon as it 
emerges from the city orange blossoms 
perfume the air and the beautiful ever- 
C'reen trees with their golden fruit are 
seen on either hand. Then follow large 
fields of sugar beets, and alternating wal- 
nut and orange groves, with occasional 
homes, hedged in and embowered with 
roses. Distant mountain ranges limit the 
vision. The dry bed of the San Gabriel 
river is seen now and then. At Santa 
Ana a beautiful little park, filled with 
pansies and roses surrounds the station. 
Big alfalfa fields spread their vivid green 
over the levels, then the gray-green of 
olive orchards which give Avay to gently 
swelling hills, some green or golden with 
grain, or, perhaps, freshly reaped, all em- 
broidered with the delicate, feathery, 
golden mustard, in places man-high, re- 
calling Ramona making her way through 
the feathery fronds to meet Father Sal- 
videa coming from San Luis Rey. 

At eleven San Juan Capistrano is 
reached. From the train can be seen the 
high walls of the ancient church. It is 
but a step from the pretty modern sta- 
tion of mission design to the cloistered 
quadrangle and ruined nave of this splen- 
did church of long ago. Gazing on them 
the mind rushes back over the years to 
the golden days of this great establish- 
ment. The church was undoubtedly the 
finest of all the mission structures in Cali- 
fornia. The size, the material of which 
it was made, mainly stone and mortar, 
the carved pilasters, capitals, keystones 
and lintels, all attest its former magnifi- 
cence, while the large patio, the buildings 
Avhich enclose it and remains of other 
buildings are present-day witnesses to the 
size and importance of the establishment. 
The first founding of the mission, on Oc- 
tober 30, 1775, was interrupted by news 
of the destruction bj' Indians of the mis- 
sion at San Diego. A cross was erected 
to mark the spot where mass had, been 
celebrated under a rude shelter of boughs, 
the bells for the new mission were buried 
and priests and soldiers hastened to Sap 



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Hotel St. James 

The House of Sunshine and Hospitality 

Ooened 1914. Built of Steel, Concrete and Marble. 

European Plan 

Cafe and Tea-Room in Connection 



Strictly modern. 



Every convenience. Efficient service both 
day and night. 



1 50 Rooms. 1 00 with Private Bath 

Hotel St. James aflords all conveniences and comforts for its 
guests. Large lobby, mezzanine floor, ladies' parlor. Close to 
all stores, public buildings, theatres and other attractions. 

Rates $1.00 per Day up 

Room with Bath from $1.50 

Magnificent view of ocean, bay and mountains from its spacious 
sun parlor. 

6th St., between E and F Sts. 
San Diego 

Sight-seeing cars for all points of interest direct from 
hotel. FREE AUTO BUS meets all trains and steamers 

No raise of rates during Exposition, 1916 



Hotel cAppleton 

San Francisco 



THE man or woman who travels occasionally — or any traveler — ^adds comfort 
and pleasure to the journey by selecting the cAppleton when visiting 
iSan Francisco. 
Situated at 240 O'Farrell Street between Powell and Mason, in the heart of down 
town San Francisco, it offers a headquarters from which is easily reached the 
theatre and shopping district. 

RATES: 

1 person without bath - $1.00 up 1 person with bath - - $1.50 up 

2 peisons without bath - 1.50 up 2 persons with bath - - 2.00 up 

Special monthly rates to permanent guests 

The cL/4.ppleton provides a cheerful, genial atmosphere not found in many hotels 
and a courteous, interested service from employees which every traveler is quick 
to appreciate. 

Large sjjacious lobby with dancing floor and private parlor for ladies. Make all 
reservations direct, — .simply drop us a card stating hour of arrival and reservation 
desired — -everything will be in readiness upon your arrival. 



Cafe in Connection 



Hotel c/4.ppleton 

San Francisco 

L. B. FAUGHT, Proprietor 



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Diego. Returning the following year a 
successful search was made for the cross 
and the mission was founded a second 
lime on November 1, 177(5, the seventh 
mission in order of establishment. The 
spot was about six miles from the pres- 
ent mission, in the Mission Vieja Canyon, 
wiiere may still be seen the ruins of a 
large adobe building. Tlie oldest build- 
ing of the present establishment is the 
long one known as Father Serra's 
clmreh, forming the east side of the quad- 
rangle. It Avas built during his lifetime, 
and used up to the completion of the 
big church in 1806, also after the de- 
struction of the great church, until 1890, 
when the former living rooms of the two 
fathers in charge were made over into 
the present chapel. The patio or quad- 
rangle was the out-door woi-k shop of the 
Indians, where many of their trades were 
carried on. Hats, candles, shoes, blankets 
and other articles were made in rooms 
located in the northwest corner. In the 
northeast corner and along the north side 
of the patio were the store houses. The 
kitchen of the padres was in the building 
along the south, and just to the east of 
the kitchen was the pantry, or dispensa, 
wherein may be seen today the ancient 
tule and raAvhide ceiling, the old gallery 
and original hand-hewn shelves. 

The walls of the great church are from 
tAvo to seven feet in thickness. They are 
built of boulders, adobe and brick. Lin- 
tels, keystones, capitals and cornices are 
made of sandstone carved by the Indian 
neophytes, and carried by them from the 
quarry six miles aAvay. The roof and 
paving tiles were burned in kilns whose 



remains may be seen on the liillside ncrth 
of the mission. Logs for beams and 
rafters were brought, some from the can- 
yon of the Trabuco (a near-by stream) 
and others from a mountainside twenty 
miles away. The church was nine yeai's 
in building. It had a great terraced 
tower in front, so lofty that it was visi- 
ble ten miles away, and the roof was 
formed of seven domes, one over the 
chancel, three over the transept and three 
covering the nave. It was occupied only 
six years, and destroyed in 1812 by an 
earthquake which occuri'ed during mass. 
Forty people perished in the ruins. T\\r 
great tower fell outward across the Plaza. 
The domes of the nave fell. Those of the 
transept were afterward blown up by 
gunpowder to make way for a wooden 
roof over the whole, but a heavy rain 
destroyed some of the recently rebuilt 
walls and the work was abandoned. Now, 
nave and transept are ojDen to the sky, 
the altar is covered by the one remaining 
dome. Nine niches are back of the altar; 
the statues which once occupied them are 
in the present chapel. The blue-green 
color, ornamenting the dome and arches, 
groin and keystone, is still unfaded, but 
grasses and weeds have sprung up be- 
tween the square burnt tiles of the pave- 
ment, and the carved cornices and mould- 
ing of the arches have received an un- 
designed ornamentation in the regular 
rows of mud swallows' nests which bor- 
der them. The swallows are darting about 
and linnets are filling the air with song. 
Stepjiing through the doorway (the walls 
of which are six feet thick) and looking 
to the southeast the range of color would 




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The Hotel with a Personality 



Hotel Sandf ord 

SAN DIEGO 

FIFTH AND A STREETS, ONE BLOCK FROM BUSINESS CENTER 
On Main Car Line to the Exposition 

150— ROOMS— 150 

Beautiful Outside Sunny Rooms, Connecting With Bath 



Good Cafe 



F. S. SANDFORD 
Managing Director 




Rates 

Detached Bath 

$1.00 to $2.50 

Private Bath 

$1.50 to $3.00 



GROUND FLOOR— MUSIC ROOM— RECEPTION ROOM— LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S WRITING 
ROOM— PRIVATE TELEPHONES— UNEXCELLED SERVICE— STEAM HEAT- 
DAY AND NIGHT ELEVATOR 

Under the personal management of F. S. Sandford, formerly manager of the Majestic Hotel New York City, and 
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NATATORIUM, BIMINI HOT SPRINGS 



BIMINI HOT SPRINGS 

Twenty minutes from business center of Los Angeles. L. A. Electric 
(yellow) cars from all depots. The only natural hot mineral baths in the 
city. Visitors welcoqie. See the great swimming pools, private tub 
rooms, treatment section, bottling and shipping works, etc. Hotel in 
connection, where patients are cared for. Tourists who have not visited 
Bimini Hot Springs have not seen Los Angeles. 

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delight an artist's soul. Distant purple 
hills with velvet shadows are outlined 
against the flawless blue of a California 
sky. Green trees are waving in the mid- 
dle distance and foreground, with paler 
green or yellowing grain fields between. 
Tawny grasses cover the old Plaza del 
Pueblo before the church and over a 
white dooryard fence nearby blaze two 
bushes of crimson roses. Violet, blue, 
green, yellow and red — the palette was 
set with colors from the rainbow. 

Between the great church and the pres- 
ent chapel a pierced wall holds the bells 
which once sAvung high in the tall tower. 
There are four, all bearing interesting 
inscriptions, two dated 1796 and two 1804. 
As the mission is older than the earliest 
of these dates, evidently these are not 
the original bells, which were either not 
found after being buried, or were recast 
when these bells were made. An inter- 
esting and artistic booklet prepared by 
the priest in charge. Father St. John 
O 'Sullivan, relates some old traditions of 
the bells of Capistrano and gives much 
valuable information about the establish- 
ment. It can be purchased at the mis- 
sion, and, with it in hand, the patio and 
corridors are filled with the life of other 
days. The arches along the east wall are 
intact and the pavement of large square 
tile is unbroken, though worn by many 
feet in years gone by. Across the south 
side the arches extend three-quarters of 
the way and about two-thirds of the way 
across the north side. Standing near the 
north end of the eastern corridor, the 
picture seen across the patio is unfor- 



getable. On the south side the tiled roof 
is lifted in the center a half story higher 
than the rest and is topped by the pic- 
turesque chimney of the ancient kitchen. 
The coloring of the tiles is marvelous, 
running through dull reds and purplish 
tints into exquisite mossy greens. Cool, 
alluring shadows lurk in the depths of 
the cloistered walk, the brownish-white 
pillars and arches are wreathed and hung 
with ivy, and one splendid crimson climb- 
ing rose lights up the low tones of the 
background. Fortunate California to be 
dowered with such an inheritance ! A 
place so satisfying to the eye and to the 
imagination, one is loth to leave. Three 
o'clock and the next train for San Diego 
come all too soon. Regretfully, one sees 
the mission walls pass out of sight, but 
immediately there is a new interest. The 
train passes between hills to the ocean 
shore and in a very few minutes it is 
skirting the beach, the surf rolling far 
up the sands at the right; high clitfs 
rising on the left. Looking back up the 
beach as we turn to the shore from be- 
tween the hills we catch a glimpse of the 
high cliff described by Dana in his "Two 
Years Before the Mast," over which hides 
were thrown onto the narrow beach be- 
low and from there taken in small boats 
to the ships. Once it was called El Em- 
barcadero Vieja, but it is now known as 
Dana's Point. For miles the track hugs 
the shore. When it takes a course fur- 
ther back, deep gullies and draws lead 
down to the ocean and give glimpses 
of the dancing waves or rolling surf. 
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view over the cliffs we see wide fields and 
rolling hills, glorified everywhere by the 
golden mustard lying like patches of sun- 
shine over the fields and making a new 
Thaddeus Welch picture of every hillside. 
Oceanside is reached in less than an hour. 
Here is a comfortable hotel, a beautiful 
beach and a prosperous little town, which 
is the base for the four-mile drive to San 
Luis Rey, that flower of all the missions 
for site and architecture. If the stop 
is made now one must stay overnight. 
If this is inconvenient the stop-over can 
be made on the return trip from San 
Diego unless one wishes to come back by 
water. A livery barn across the road 
from the station will furnish at a moder- 
ate price a horse and buggy or carriage 
for the drive. The road runs straight 
from Oceanside until the Home of the 
Rosicrucians is reached, a pretty building 
surrounded by flowers. Soon there is a 
turn and we are looking up the valley of 
the San Luis Rey river, beautiful with 
its level plain and encircling hills, as 
are all these mission valleys. Away in 
the distance we see the shining tower 
and the white, restored walls of the church 
and monastery. A few more turns lead 
us down into the valley and fhen a long, 
sti'aight road until just before the church 
is reached when we climb the eminence 
on which it stands. The site is a noble 
one, commanding as it does a view of 
the whole length of the valley, but the 
church is disappointing in its freshness 
of renewed plaster, white and buff kal- 
somine and paint. One longs for the 
mellow, time-stained walls with the bricks 
showing under the fallen plaster; but the 
lines of the church, the doorways, the 
mouldings, the pilasters still impress one 
with their beauty. 

San Luis Rey de Francia was the eigh- 
teenth mission in order of time. It was 
founded by Father Lasuen in October, 
1797, but the church was not begun until 
June, 1798. Father Antonio Peyri, one 
of the best loved of the early Franciscan 
priests, superintended the building, which 
was completed in 1802. It was a noble 
edifice ''one hundi'ed and sixty feet long, 
fifty wide and sixty feet high, with walls 
four feet thick. A tower at one side held 
a belfry for eight bells. The corridor 
on the opposite side had two hundred and 
fifty-six arches. Its gold and silver or- 
naments are said to have been superb." 
The valley below was exceedingly fertile 



and the flocks and herds doubled every 
ten years. In 1826 Father Peyri received 
into the ciiurch 2,8G9 Indians. In 1834, 
about the time of secularization, the In- 
dian population around San Luis Rey was 
35,000. The mission possessed over 24,000 
head of cattle, 10,000 horses and 100,000 
sheep. 

In the patio of San Luis Rey Father 
Peyi'i planted with his own hands the 
first pepper tree of California. He was 
the first to establish a hospital and to 
teach the Indians the rudiments of 
hygiene. After secularization the church 
was spared the vandalism which hastened 
the destruction of so many of the mis- 
sion buildings, although it was used as a 
military post during the Mexican war. 
After many years of neglect, it was de- 
termined in 1892 to repair it and restore 
it to the Franciscan order. In 1893 the 
church was re-dedicated and there were 
present at the services three ancient In- 
dian women who had heard the original 
dedication services ninety years before. 
Once more the mission bells ring across 
the valley, once more the voice of priest 
and chorister is heard within the old 
walls, and once more the brown robed 
Franciscans with bai"e, or sandalled feet 
tread the worn tiles of corridor and nave. 
A long new structure with arches pat- 
terned after the original building stretches 
out in line with the fachada of the church. 
This is the home of the brothers. It is a 
reminder of their vow of poverty to see 
on the doorstep a small basket covered 
with a clean cloth, the contribution toward 
their daily food, of some pious parish- 
ioner in the valley below. The new build- 
ing is all a glaring white, but time will 
tone it in with the landscape. The origi- 
nal pavement of large square tiles is be- 
fore the church, the worn or broken 
places repaired with cement. The church 
has been re-roofed with the original curved 
tile made by the Indians. The large, im- 
posing building is covered with a buff 
wash outside and decorated with brown 
trimmings, a probable innovation contem- 
porary with its restoration. The walls 
and ceilings within are gaudily colored 
following the patterns of the original In- 
dian decorations. The old, faded shades, 
visible in one of the arches, are much 
more satisfactory. A perfectly propor- 
tioned dome covers the chancel, with 
beautiful groined arches on each side. The 
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days, except that one statue is missing 
from its niche. A life-size statue of St. 
Francis is very good. An old Byzantine 
wooden pulpit made by the Indians is 
reached by a narrow stairway from the 
chancel. Father Salvidea, who figures in 
Ramona, is buried in the chancel. Two 
later Mexican priests are buried in the holy 
ground outside. The half-i'uined mortuary 
chapel is perhaps the most interesting part 
of the church. Unrestored, with its pas- 
sages and stairway in the thickness of the 
walls, it has come straight down to us out 
of the past. 

The restored mission is now educating 
priests instead of Indians, but it is also 
ministering to the people of the valley 
which it overlooks. Most of them are 
Mexicans, but here and there are descend- 
ants of those for whose conversion the 
mission was founded. 

Every fall the father in charge presides 
over a fiesta which is held by the people 
of the valley, and to which the Mexicans 
flock from far and near. They make 
merry with music and dancing and their 
characteristic sports, and bring rugs and 
lace and pottery to sell. Heaps of tules 
here and there in the fields show where 
their ramadas, or arbors, have stood. 

A ride of eighteen or twenty miles from 
San Luis Rey will bring one to San 
Antonio de Pala. This was an asistencia, 
or branch of San Luis Rey, founded by 
Father Peyri for the convenience of the 
mountain Indians who found the distance 



to the large church too great. The pic- 
turesque bell tower of Pala is a favorite 
subject for the artist. The bells still call 
the Indians to worship, but these are not 
the original Pala Indians, nor their de- 
scendants. They were scattered, after 
secularization. These are the Indians 
brought from Warner's ranch after their 
ejectment, and, through the efforts of the 
Sequoya League, settled here. 

From Oceanside the train passes through 
several pretty seaside towns. Del Mar is 
a particularly pretty place, with a beauti- 
ful hotel facing the ocean. It has a wide, 
firm beach with fine bathing facilities, a 
pleasure pier, and affords all sorts of 
out-of-door sports, hunting, deep sea and 
surf fishing, tennis, croquet and golf, boat- 
ing, riding and driving. Besides the hotel 
there are many attractive homes. 

Three-quarters of an hour more and the 
train nears San Diego, first False Bay, 
the scene of the opening act of the Mis- 
sion Play at San Gabriel. A long arm 
stretches from the north down on the 
west side precisely as Point Loma em- 
braces the northwestei'n end of the real 
San Diego bay just below. The train 
skirts Pacific Beach, which faces False 
Bay and Point Loma comes into view, 
cutting off the real bay from our vision. 
We see a lighthouse at the end and fancy 
that the most strongly marked buildings 
are those of Madam Tingley's Theosophi- 
cal Home. A little further and the beau- 
tiful Harbor of the Sun is at our feet, 




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and we have reached San Diego, whose 
beginning was the first mission planted 
by the Franciscans in Alta California in 
1769. Blessed by the good Father Serra, 
watered by the blood of martyrs, ex- 
panded in later yeai's by far-seeing men, 
it now embraces the beautiful bay which 
is its harbor and is the first American 
port to be reached by ships coming thi'ough 
the canal, whose completion she is now 
making ready to celebrate. San Diego is 
a place of first things. Walter Colton in 
his diary says: "Here the first cattle in 
California were corralled, the first sheep 
sheared, the first field furrowed, the first 
vineyard planted, the first church bell 
rung," and John S. McGroarty in his 
"California" adds: "Here Avere reared 
the first cross, the first church, the first 
town. Here, too, was the first cultivated 
field, the first palm, and the first vine and 
olive to blossom into fruitage from the 
life-giving waters of the first irrigating 
ditch." 

San Diego began at Oldtown, in the 
northern part of the present city. Here 
the cross was planted by Father Serra in 
1769, and here on the hill above the 



Presidio was built. A little later the site 
of the church was changed to the spot 
six miles up the San Diego river, where 
the ruins of the mission now stand over- 
looking the valley. The little Spanish 
settlement down near the shores of False 
Bay grew slowly. In 1867 Alonzo Horton 
came to San Diego with his savings earned 
in a little furniture shop in San Francisco. 
It was only a few hundred dollars that 
he had, but he foresaw future for the 
harbor and a city upon its shores. He 
invested his all in land at twenty-six 
cents an acre, and became owner of nearly 
all the territory on which modern San 
Diego is built. He sold some of his land 
and divided other acres into lots, which 
brought him $100 a piece. He lived to see 
his foresight justified, and he is often 
called the Father of San Diego. Some of 
his $100 lots are now worth half a mil- 
lion, but between those days and this San 
Diego has met with vicissitudes, all of 
which she has triumphed over. A later 
foster father is John D. Spreckels, who 
has invested millions here. Now, with 
the San Diego and Arizona railway as- 
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■with the Southern Pacific Rnilway at 
Yuma, and sliortening the distance l)e- 
tween all eastern points and San Diecfo 
nearly one hundred miles, her only handi- 
cap, lack of sufficient transportation facil- 
ities by rail, is removed. The line will 
be completed long before the exposition 
year rolls around. 

San Diego has a prolific back country, 
I'ugged but, when blessed with water, won- 
derfully fertile, and she needs the best 
of water and rail transportation to mar- 
ket the products. The city is connected 
through Los Angeles with the east anc' 
north by the Santa Fe Railroad system. 
There are eight daily trains to Los An- 
geles and two to San Francisco. The San 
Diego Southei'n Railway is a steam route 
to Sweetwater Dam and Tia Juana, with 
a station at the foot of Sixth Street. The 
San Diego, Cuyamaca and Eastern Rail- 
way Company operates both steam and 
gasoline motor trains through El Cajon 
Valley. Station at the foot of Tenth 
Street. La Jolla Railway Company ope- 
rates gasoline motor cars from the ticket 
office at Fourth and C streets for Pacific 
Beach and La Jolla. The Pacific Naviga- 
tion Company, the Pacific Coast Steam- 
ship Company, and the North Pacific 
Steamship Company make San Diego their 
southern terminus. The Ensenada Trans- 
portation Company operates a steamer for 
freight and passengers between San Diego 
and Ensenada, Mexico, and the "Manuel 
Herrerias" of the Compania Naviera del 
Pacifico plies between San Diego and 
Mazatlan, stopping at several Mexican 
ports between. As transportation facili- 
ties increased the city grew. In 1900 the 
population was 17,000; in 1905, 22,500. 
By the Federal census of 1900 it was 
39,700, and it is now estimated at 90,000. 

The city contains seventy miles of street 
railways and thirty-three miles of paved 
streets, with fifty miles of automobile 
boulevards. It maintains four daily papers, 
has a public library of 55,000 volumes 
housed in a pretty Carnegie Library build- 
ing, and twenty-four public schools, in- 
cluding an especially handsome new high 
school in Norman style carried out in 
gray stone, and a very fine State Noi-mal 
School, with buildings costing $315,000. It 
has many and handsome churches of all 
denominations, one with a beautiful chime 
of bells. Business buildings are notice- 
ably of substantial excellence. None is 



of towering height, which fact, in conjunc- 
tion with the width of the streets, lends 
(o the city an open, airy, cheerful aspect, 
unusual in cities of similar size. The 
shops are excellent, modern in appoint- 
ments and with stocks of the best. Some 
of the jewelry stores make a specialty of 
native gems mined in San Diego County, 
lourraaline, liyacinth, beryl, kunzite and 
others. One of the famous hotels of 
Southern California, the U. S. Grant, cost- 
ing $2,000,000, splendid in building and 
appointments, is in the heart of the city, 
and a short distance down the street is 
the handsome Hotel San Diego. Besides 
these there are at least thirty other hotels 
and new ones are being added, looking 
forward not only to the exposition, but to 
San Diego 's advantages as a convention 
city. Only a half hour away, by ferry 
or automobile is the delightful Coronado 
Hotel, combining all the pleasures of a 
coast resort with inland out-of-door sports 
and metropolitan advantages. Military 
and naval departments of the United 
States Government add interest to the 
town. Fort Rosecrans, a United States 
fort, guards the entrance to the harboi*. 
A torpedo boat and submarine station, 
and the most powsrful naval wireless tele- 
graph station on the Pacific Coast, are 
maintained at San Diego. On North 
Island are army aviation training grounds, 
which have the advantage over eastern 
grounds of being available all through the 
year. Besides these there are other de- 
partments of the United States Govern- 
ment here, quarantine, coaling, customs 
and immigration stations, and branches of 
the internal revenue and forestry service. 
The Spreckels Theater, the finest thea- 
ter on the Pacific Coast, is of reinforced 
concrete, fireproof construction ;ind splen*- 
didly equipped in every way. The build- 
ing occupies an entire block and has a 
seating capacity of over two thousand. 
Other theaters are the Isis, owned by the 
Theosophical Society; the Savoy, the Mir- 
ror, the Empress (vaudeville), the Grand 
(stock company), and a scoi-e of moving 
picture houses. 

In park lands, San Diego is especially 
rich, much of them, unimproved as yet, 
but keeping pace with the city's growth 
in improvement. In the center of the 
business district, just before the U. S. 
Grant Hotel, is the pretty little Plaza, full 
of palms and other trees, with a foun- 



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tain in the center sending cooling streams 
into the air by day and gk)\ving in rain- 
bow colors with wonderful electric effects 
at night. At the end of the Pavilion car 
line is Mission Cliff Park, beautifully cul- 
tivated, brilliant with flowers, and with 
additional attractions of shady walks, 
comfortable seats, a fountain playing over 
a pool of water lilies, a refreshment house, 
and beyond all else affording along its 
northern border one of the most rarely 
beautiful views of which any city can 
boast. High from the valley bed of the 
San Diego river rise the cliffs, along which 
the park lies. On the opposite side of 



and, with water and the climate of San 
Diego, capable of producing wonderful 
results in luxuriant growth of trees and 
flowers. Here was brouglit to reality the 
plans for the exposition of 1915-1916. Most 
of the exposition work in the park will 
be permanent and will add greatly to its 
beauty. A handsome, arched bridge spans 
Cabrillo Canyon, with an ornamental es- 
planade leading to it. Across Spanish 
Canyon a dam is built, which will form 
of the canyon a beautiful lagoon with 
many branches. Flowers, shrubs and trees 
are being i^ropagated in enormous quanti- 
ties for the adornment of the grounds, and 




RESIDENCE OF JOHN D. SPRECKELS AT SAN DIEGO 



the wide floor of the valley rise other 
cliffs and hills, both lines probably mark- 
ing what were the banks of a once giant 
river, now diminished to a small stream 
flowing down to the sea through the fields 
below. From hillside to hillside the plain 
stretches, level as a floor, checkered in 
different colors by green alfalfa and 
golden grain. Down the stream is the 
ocean, into which the sun sinks in splen- 
dor, flooding the valley with golden light. 
Up the stream on a hill stand the ruins 
of the mission, looking down the whole 
length of the valley to the sea. 

Balboa Park is a rich dower for any 
city, of whatever magnitude — 1,460 acres 
in the heart of the town, high ground 
from which the views over the harbor are 
superb, cut by picturesque canyons and 
gullies of whose landscape possibilities ad- 
vantage is taken in developing the park, 



already plantations of thousands of rare 
trees have been made. The buildings are 
all designed on Spanish-American lines, 
with suggestions of the missions, and are 
peculiarly adapted to their environment. 

The harbor of San Diego ranks as third 
in importance on the Pacific Coast. It 
has the requisite depth and area, a chan- 
nel through which vessels of the deepest 
draught can sail with ease, and is thor- 
oughly protected from all ocean storms. 
Point Loma reaches down a long curv- 
ing arm from the north, sheltering the 
bay on the north and northwest, while 
from the southern shore the Silver Strand, 
a narrow, sandy strip, reaches up until it 
expands into Coronado and North Island, 
effectually protecting the bay on the west. 
The bay has a total area of twenty-two 
square miles. When impi'ovements which 
are begun have been completed, San Diego 



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will have 22,000 feet of sea wall and 
eleven miles of docks, which will be ade- 
quate for a city of a million population. 
In addition, the sea wall will reclaim 
over fourteen hundred acres of land suit- 
able for warehouses and factories. Rut 
It is not only for naval and commercial 
purposes that the bay of San Diego is so 
valuable. For yachting and motor boat- 
ing it is unrivaled at all seasons of the 
year. There are thi'ee yacht clubs in and 
near San Diego with many members, and 
motor boating is becoming more and more 
popular. Those interested in both sports 
are coming from less favorable climatCM 
to the place where they can enjoy their 
fill the year around. 

It is San Diego's situation and climate 
that are her greatest assets, both God- 
given, her fortunate dowry. The city has 
expanded until it stretches from the north- 
ern to the southern extremity of the bay, 
rising gradually from the water level to 
the high land of Balboa Park. The beau- 
tiful bay is always in the foreground, the 
vision widening with evei'y foot of rise, 
until the distant mountains and misty 
islands in the ocean are included in the 
scene. 

The climate of San Diego is remarkable 
for its evenness, there being no extreme 
cold and few hot days. Nights are always 
cool. There is very little fog. There is 
sunshine 356 days out of the 365. Rainfall 
averages only ten inches. All out-of-door 
sports can be enjoyed almost every day in 
the year. 

Situation and climate add to the at- 
tractiveness of the homes of San Diego. 
Of pleasing architectural design, and some 
of them very beautiful, they stand un- 
crowded and surrounded by almost tropical 
verdure. Palms, magnolias and India rub- 
ber trees are in almost every dooryard, 
fuchsias, heliotrope and geraniums climb 
over the windows, orange and lemon trees 
perfume the air, and roses of every color 
abound. 

No place of the size of San Diego is the 
base for so many interesting and such 
diversified trips, by automobile, by boat, by 
steam car and electric, and gasoline motor. 
A "Seeing San Diego" trip by automobile 
affords an excellent general view of the 
city, of its business streets, public build- 
ings, churches, schools and beautiful homes, 
of Balboa Park and the Exposition site, 
of Golden Hill Park, the already improved 
part of Balboa with a stop at Lookout 
Point where there is a splendid outlook 



over the bay, Coronado, Point Loma to the 
mountains of Mexico and the islands of 
the sea. The different lines of the street 
railway system also enable one to see the 
city and its various points of interest by 
trolley. 

The Point Loma trip by sight-seeing 
automobile gives an afternoon of pleasure 
and is one of the most picturesque rides of 
Southern California. Every foot of the 
delightfully smooth road offers something 
of interest. First Loma Portal, a beautiful 
new residence section of San Diego at the 
base of the point, and near by the spacious 
eighteen-hole golf links and handsome club 
house. A little further and the automobile 
passes under the high Roman arch which 
forms the entrance to the grounds of the 
International Theosophical headquarters. 
These headquarters were established here by 
Madame Katherine Tingley in 1900. Since 
that time she has made the wilderness to 
blossom as the rose. Sand and sage-brush 
have given way to lawns and flowers. The 
views are superb from almost every point 
in the grounds. They embrace the blue 
bay, the sparkling Pacific, the distant 
mountains, the faint, ethereal islands on 
the horizon, as well as the charm of color, 
luxuriant vegetation and handsome build- 
ings in the foreground. The Raja Yoga 
College and Aryan Memorial Temple are 
striking edifices with the domes and arches 
of the architecture of India. In another 
part of the grounds a Greek temple out- 
lined against the blue ocean makes an 
exquisite picture. Facing the temple is a 
Greek amphitheater built in a natural 
hollow. There are many other buildings 
connected with the establishment. There 
are about 200 pupils in the Raja Yoga 
College, and a good many small children 
are cared for and educated. The Loma- 
land Forestry Department of the college 
has received high praise from the United 
States Forestry Department. Connected 
with it is an extensive nursery from which 
over 25,000 trees grown from seed have 
been planted during the past six years. 
There is also a weather station and bureau 
equipped with fine instruments, from which 
daily reports are sent to the United States 
Weather Bureau at Washington. An im- 
portant department of the Theosophical 
headquarters is the Aryan Theosophical 
Press, where the literature of the society 
is published and whence it is distributed 
throughout the world. The publications 
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SUNSET, POINT LOMA 



CAVE, OCEAN BEACH 



After visiting this world-famous insti- 
tution the automobile continues southward 
along Point Loma Boulevard through the 
government reservation. The road over- 
looks Tort Rosecrans on the bay side of the 
point and the big guns which form the de- 
fense of the harbor are easily seen. The 
bi-eakwater and entrance to the harbor are 
just under our feet and farther away Coro- 
nado beach and hotel are visible. A stop 
is made at the Bennington monument, a 
tall shaft commemorating the men who 
perished in the explosion on the Benning- 
ton a few years ago. At the extreme end 
of the point is the so-called Spanish light- 
house, a quaint old building looking the 
part of its reputation, but really built after 
Spanish dominion had passed away from the 
land. At the very end of the point, over 
the hill on the ocean side is the modern 
Government lighthouse, throwing its pierc- 
ing, intermittent beam many miles out to 
sea. The lighthouse is ninety feet high. 



standing on a thirty-foot base. It is a 
sheer fall of 200 feet from the end of the 
point down to the water. Coronado islands 
can be seen twenty miles away in the 
offing. Paralleling the end of the point is 
the breakwater two miles long which, with 
Point Loma, forms the channel leading into 
San Diego Bay from the ocean. A whist- 
ling buoy marks the end of the channel. 
Far away is the Silver Strand which con- 
nects Coronado with the mainland at the 
south. When a road, which is planned, is 
built from Coronado to North Island across 
Spanish Bight which nearly separates them, 
the beach and drive will be fifteen miles 
long. 

Of course everyone who goes to San 
Diego must make the trip to Tia Juana and 
step over the boundary line into old 
Mexico. Sight-seeing cars leave at 9:00 
a. m. and 2:00 p. m., but not always daily, 
so it is best to consult someone connected 
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iiing- the trip. A conductor is nstially 
found near the U. S. Grant Hotel, or in- 
quiry can be made at the information 
bureau in the hotel or at Dodge's Informa- 
tion Bureau in the Savoy Building on 
Third and C streets. 

The route leads through the southern 
part of San Diego, between orange, lemon 
and olive groves, through the towns of 
National City and Chula Vista, along 
Palm Avenue through Nestor to the custom 
liouse standing on the borders of old Mexico. 
The road is lined nearly all the way by 
eucalyptus, palms, Monterey cypresses and 
pepper trees. After crossing the boundary 
it is but a short drive to Tia Juana, a 
small Mexican town, half quaint and 
foreign, half ugly and commercial. A 
queer little play-fort is at the entrance of 
the town and soldiers in soiled white uni- 
forms are busy making adobe bricks and 
laying them out to dry, or repairing what 



Irving Cobl) calls the ''knee-works" of the 
fort, in the center of the adobe enclosure 
is a small wooden house with little pill-box 
turrets at two corners. Tlie road turns at 
the corner into the main street which con- 
sists of a dozen stores (mostly curio stores) 
and restaurants. Tia Juana means Aunt 
Jane. One wonders why the name was 
bestowed. Everyone flocks to the curio 
stores and l)uys drawn work, carved 
leather or pottery, not more than a dol- 
lar's worth, for that is all that can be 
taken in duty free. It requires consider- 
able skill to consume an hour in spending 
one dollar, and any spare time is passed 
in buying postal cards, addressing and 
mailing them on foreign soil, or in 
lunching on real Mexican tamales and 
enchiladas. On the way back everything 
must be declared at the custom house and 
packages are examined. From Palm Ave- 
nue the automobile turns to the Silver 




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SCENES AT WARNER'S SPRINGS 



Strand leading to Coronado and foi' eight 
miles the drive is along this narrow cause- 
way, in some places not over one hundred 
feet wide with the surf of the ocean 
washing it on one side and the bay on the 
other. The road passes through the tent 
city of Coronado, through the grounds of 
the beautiful Coronado Hotel, and gives 
a glimpse of the pretty town on the way 
to the ferry boat which plies between San 
Diego and Coronado. This trip consumes 
a half day; but there is a longer "Special" 
trip wliich includes Imperial Beach, gives 
two hours in Mexico and a half hour at 
Coronado, taking a day in all. Particu- 
lars about this trip can be had at Dodge's 
Information Bureau, Third and C streets. 
Neither one of these trips gives enough 
time to enjoy Coronado to the full, but it 
is a simple matter to make a supple- 
mentary independent trip by electric car 
and ferry to Coronado. The court of the 
hotel, not visible from the outside, is ons 
of its most charming features, all bright 



as it is Avitli flowers and sunshine, and 
shaded with trees and vines, with birds 
singing and the sound of the sui-f wash- 
ing the beach on which the hotel stands. 
Coronado offers all sorts of temptations to 
those who love out-door life. Polo, golf, 
tennis, fishing, bathing, walking, riding 
and driving, each has its devotees. 

The unique Japanese tea-garden of 
George T. Marsh should not be overlooked. 
Following the path indicated by sign posts 
a gate is found in the JajDanese wall which 
surrounds the place. On sounding a gong at 
the gate a pretty little Japanese maiden 
appears and leads you into the garden, 
after you have paid the small entrance 
fee which includes tea and wafers. You 
may wander at will in the garden and 
when you are tired and rest yourself in one 
of the pretty tea houses, the little maiden 
will lay down her embroidery and bring 
tea. Afterwards, if you wish to look at 
beautiful Japanese goods which are for 
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which stands on a small hill and some one 
will show 30U tlie articles. If you do not 
care to do this nothins: is obtruded upon 
you. The trip to Tia Juana is often made 
by way of SweetAvater Dam, on the San 
Diego Southern Railroad, and some con- 
sider this tlie most intorestins^ way to go. 
Old Town is the center of the historic 
interest of San Diego, or, perhaps divides 
that honor Avith the old mission. It is 
somewhat confusing to the stranger to 
hear of mission relics at both spots and 
to leai'n how far apart they are. Old 
Town was the place Avhere the padres 
halted on their northward march fi'om 
LoAver California, set up their ci'oss and 
dedicated their mission. On the hill above, 
the Presidio Avas built and the soldiers 
established there. A little later Father 
Serra deemed it Avise to remove the mis- 
sion farther from the Presidio (a policy 
which he carried out at later missions 
also) and he chose the site six miles up 
the valley of the San Diego river, Avhere 



tlio ruins of the mission buildings now 
stand. At Old ToAvn the ruins of the 
Presidio may be seen, the old palms which 
Avere the first planted in California, the 
old graveyard, the first brick house in 
California, the monument Avhich marks the 
spot where General Fremont raised the 
American flag in 1846, old Fort Stockton, 
mission relics and an old mission bell in 
the present church, which Avas built for a 
home by George Lyon in 1854 and later, 
after degenerating into a saloon and bil- 
liard hall, became a church; the fine old 
adobe tile-roofed home of the Estudillo 
family, which is knoAvn as Ramona's Mar- 
riage Place, and across the road from that 
the old home of Don Juan Bandini, fa- 
miliar to readers of Dana's ''Tavo Years 
Before the Mast" and Alfred Robinson's 
''Life in California." The Bandini home 
is sadly changed by the addition of a 
frame second story. The Estudillo house 
needs no connection with Ramona's name 
to add to its interest. In its restored 




MME. SCHUMANN-HEINKE AT HER HOME ON GROSSMONT, 
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state it presents a charming picture of 
one of the better class of homes during 
the days of the Spanish regime. Every 
foot of it is full of interest. Geoi'ge 
Wharton James speaks of the place where 
"the fictitious marriage of the fictitious 
Ramona to the fictitious hero took place, ' ' 
and the chapel of this home may well 
have been the place Mrs. Jackson had in 
mind when she wrote her romance, but 
the marriage is no historic fact. The house 
is built around three sides of a patio, 
which contains a fountain and "wishing 
Avell," flowers and vines wreathing the 
verandas and hanging in festoons from 
the roof. The patio opens on the fourth 
side into a beautiful garden. The house 
is of adobe, with tiled roof and the veran- 
da floors around the three sides of the 
patio have been re-paved with squai-e 
burned tiles brought from an old aqueduct 
built by the padres in 1770 Avhich brought 
water from a dam across the San Diego 
river. The house was built in 1825. The 
kitchen at the farthest end of one side of 
the patio contains old copper cooking 
utensils brought from Spain, and old 
pottery dishes. A tule shelf for milk and 



cheese hangs on the side of the room 
farthest from the fireplace. The floor is 
tiled and worn into hollows by years of 
use. It is a cool, comfortable room and 
does not compare unfavorably with the 
average kitchen of today. In the patio is 
a stone filter over a hundred years old, 
and still in use. Across the court or 
patio is the dining room. The Indian 
sei-vants were kept on the kitchen side of 
the house; on the opposite side were the 
family living rooms. The doors of the 
house are hand-hewn and the rafters are 
tied with thongs. The house has been con- 
verted into a sort of a museum and con- 
tains many interesting things, among them 
a Mexican Carreta 200 years old, and a 
stage-coach sixty-five years old which used 
to run to Fort Yuma. Its original cost 
was $1,600. In one room is considerable 
furniture which once belonged to Alonzo 
Horton, the "Father of San Diego." In 
another room is a collection of mission 
paintings and there are hourly lectures on 
the missions. Indian blankets, baskets, 
curios, photographs, etc., are for sale in 
one of the rooms. 




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It is a beautiful drive from San Dieg'o 
to the Old Mission. The sight-seeing' auto- 
mobiles make the trip frequently but not 
daily, so it is best to make previous 
arrangements. The route is generally to 
go by the valley and return along the high 
ground and through Balboa Park or vice 
versa. The father in cliarge will show^ the 
buildings to visitors. There is a modern 
chapel which contains many things taken 
from the old church, of which now only 
the fachada and a few walls remain. The 
tower is gone, but one bell hangs from a 
beam. This was recast from four small 
bells which were broken when the tower 
fell during an earthquake. The bell is of 
beautiful tone. There were originally 
seven bells. Two now hang before the 
church in Old Town and one in a Catholic 
church in San Diego. Many fragments of 
adobe walls indicate how large the original 
enclosure must have been, about thirty 
acres. Parts of a cactus hedge also re- 
main. The first olive orchard of California 
is here, 140 years old and still bearing. 
There are several towering palm trees 
about the same age as the old palms of 
Old Town. It was in 1774 that Padre 
Junipero moved the mission from Old Town 
to this spot. In 1775 there was an up- 
rising among the Indians and Father 
Jayme was murdered. The mission build- 
ings were destroyed by fire and other 
means. They were soon rebuilt and dedi- 
cated in 1777, but not entirely completed 
until 1784. In 1804 a new church was 
built which gave place in 1813 to the 
structure whose ruins we view with in- 
terest today. The main building was 
about ninety feet long. The walls are 
four feet thick. The building was mainly 
of adobe, but the doorway and window 
casings were made of burnt tile. The 
church stands on an eminence commanding 
a fine view down the beautiful mission 
valley to the sea. Perhaps the most in- 
teresting of all the things to be seen is 
the well in the orchard across the road 
below the mission and the underground 
passage which leads to it from the church. 
The door opening into the well from the 
passage can be seen. The church end is 
closed. The fathers seemed to be in 
more danger in San Diego than elsewhere 



from Indian outbreaks and the passage 
was probably made so that they might 
have access to water if tliey should be 
besieged in the church buildings. 

Old Town is reached by train or by 
trolley cars marked Ramona's Home. 
After a half-day in Old Town one can go 
on to La Jolla, a pretty town with bril- 
liant borders of flowers along its walks 
and famous for its wonderful cliffs and 
caves and wave-worn arclios along the 
ocean shore. There is good bathing here 
and the place is both a summer resort and 
the site of many beautiful all-the-year- 
'round homes. There is a good hotel, and 
a fascinating arts and crafts shop, an 
aquarium, and not far away a biological 
station of the University of California. 
La Jolla is also the home of the rare 
Torrey pine. The bungalows down near 
the beach are not numbered but each 
bears its name on a little sign, "The 
Breakers," "The Cozy," "The Nest," 
"Honeybug, " "The Green Dragon," etc. 
Pacific Beach and Ocean Beach are both 
pleasant places to visit. Both can boast 
fine beaches, bordering the Pacific. There 
are Bay Excursions which visit Fort Rose- 
crans and other interesting spots by water, 
giving one a fine view of the bay. There 
are also excursions to Coronado Island, a 
delightful trip for those who love the 
ocean. 

Wliat are called "Back Country Trips" 
leave the office of Dodge 's Information 
Bureau (Third and C streets) daily for 
Grossmont, El Cajon Valley, La Mesa and 
other interesting places. Grossmont is 
1,200 feet above the sea and offers a 
magnificent panorama of ocean, mountain 
and valley scenery. To the north snow- 
capped San Antonio is seen and nearer 
at hand San Jacinto and the Palomar 
mountains, to the south the table moun- 
tains of Old Mexico, to the east the timber- 
covered Cuyamaca range and to the west 
the city, the bay, the ocean and the islands 
on the horizon. 

The above by no means exhaust the 
intei'esting excursions which can be taken 
from San Diego, but offer a few sugges- 
tions for trips which will well repay the 
traveler. 



IN 1909 THE POPULATION OF SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, WAS 30,000. 

IN 1913 IT WAS 90,000, AN INCREASE OF 200 PER CENT. IN FOUR YEARS. 

SAN DIEGO IS THE MARVEL OF THE WORLD. 



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The Stratford Inn 

occupies a situation or remarkaDle 
grandeur — it is a notel m a garden, 
on a DeautiTully ^vooded nilL com- 
manding superb view^s or ocean, 
mountains and valleys 



The Best Place for Rest or Recreation 



SURF AND INDOOR BATHING! .^ DEEP-SEA. SURF, PIER FISHING! 

HUNTING! GOLFING! MOTORING! TENNIS AND OTHER DIVERSIONS 

UNEQUALLED SITES FOR SUMMER AND WINTER HOMES 



Forty Minutes to San Diego and tne 1916 Fair 



Santa Fe by Train (Del Mar, San Diego County) Coast Road by Motor 
Stopover privileges on all transportation lines 



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Notable Hotels ^ California 



Offering To Their Guests Widely Varying Attractions, 
Each Presenting Some Special Charm of Its Own 



Southern California offers an unusual 
number of delightful hotels for the choice 
of the hotel seeker, and most of them 
have a distinction which renders a 
stay within their hospitable Avails, be 
it for a season or only for a single meal, 
a pleasure long to be treasured in 
memory. Situated in widely different 
localities, they offer widely varying 
attractions, each presenting some special 
charm of its own. They climb the 
hill slopes, rest on the mountain tops, 
nestle in the valleys, dip their feet in 
the ocean, or border city pavements. 
They offer to their guests wide sweep of 
vision, golf, tennis and polo, the coun- 
try for walking and driving, the ocean 
for boating, bathing and fishing, the moun- 
tain side for hunting, the old missions 
and landmarks of the early days for ex- 
ploration, or the city for urban pleasures. 
At each hotel one or more of these at- 
tractions awaits the traveler, while com- 
mon to all of them is pure, balmy air, 
the beauty and odor of flowers, charming 
rooms, careful service and a cuisine suited 
to the most fastidious. 

The large hotels of Los Angeles and 
San Diego are the peers of metropolitan 
hotels anywhere. Beginning with Los An- 
geles, the Hotel Alexandria is conve- 
nientlv located on Fifth Street, between 
BroadAvay and Hill. A spacious lobby 
with columns and wainscot of colored 
marbles forms an inviting entrance and 
luxurious lounging room. The Franco- 
Italian dining salon and the tea room, 
adorned with Pan playing his pipes at 
the fountain among the flowers, are most 
attractive. On the mezzanine floor is a 
gallery with writing tables, a library, 
ladies' parlor and ballroom with pale 
gray brocaded satin walls. The hotel con- 
tains seven hundred rooms and suites, 



thirty with pianos and a number with 
private dining-rooms. In the basement is 
the mission Indian grill with the unique 
decorations its name implies. 

The Hotel Lankershim at Broadway and 
Seventh Street, and tlie Van Nuys at Fourth 
and Main streets are dignified hotels of a 
type similar to the Alexandria. They are all 
well located for business, shopping or sight- 
seeing, and furnish every comfort, conve- 
ience and luxury demanded by the traveling 
public. Simplicity is the keynote of the 
furnishing of the Van Nuys, the pleasing 
sim])licity which it takes an artist to effect. 
The pretty Peacock lounging room on the 
second floor is attractive to those who 
prefer its quiet aloofness to the bustle of 
the lobby. 

The Angelus, at Fourth and Spring 
streets, is located right in the center of the 
busy city of Los Angeles. There is an at- 
mosphere of comfort in this delightful tour- 
ist home that is almost never found apart 
from one's own fireside. In every hotel 
there are certain features which of neces- 
sity remain the same. Each has its dining 
room, its banquet room, its ball room, etc., 
but there is a vast difference in the atmos- 
phere of the "average hotel" and that of 
the Hotel Angelus. 

There is something about this hotel that 
is distinctly its own in character, something 
which invai-iably makes the gaiest glad he 
came and likewise loath to take his leave. 
There are writing rooms and reading rooms, 
there are lounging rooms and smoking 
rooms — but the most attractive room of all 
is the one where one may sit quietly resting 
or chatting with friends, and each time one 
looks in its direction there looms up before 
their vision an exquisite picture with its 
delicatelv tinted colorings, the greatest of 
all paintings from the brush of Millet, and 
from which the hotel derived its name, 
"The Ans'elus. " 



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A SECTION OF THE SPACIOUS LOBBY OF THE HOTEL ANGELUS 
On the mezzanine floor above are cozy retreats and a beautiful painting of the famous picture, "The Angelus," 

from which the hotel derived its name 



Away from the business center, but 
still in Los Angeles, is the Hotel Holly- 
wood situated at the base of the Santa 
Monica mountains. The wide s^jreading 
hospitable building contains one hundred 
and fifty rooms and is encircled by spa- 
cious porches which can be enjoyed win- 
ter or summer. The refreshing ocean 
breeze, palms and luxuriant shrubbery 
temper the warai days, while gay flowers 
and sweet odors make the winter tourist 
forget the discomforts of the ice-bound 
East. The kitchens are immaculately kept 
and open at all times for inspection of 
guests. The dining-room overlooks a beau- 
tiful garden. Many of the sleeping-rooms 
have private balconies or sleeping porches 
which command beautiful views of the 
foothills. Weekly dances, billiards, card 
rooms and tennis courts are free to gnests. 

Midway between Los Angeles and the 
ocean is the beautiful Beverly Hills Hotel, 
also on the American plan. The archi- 



tecture blends Avell with the background, 
while the outlook from the site is mag- 
nificent. It includes the Santa Monica 
mountains, the nearby rolling hills cov- 
ered with orchard, vineyard or natural 
growth and six miles away the shore of 
the Pacific. At night the sparkling, scin- 
tillating lights of Los Angeles, and above 
the shining stars, transform the scene 
into one of mysterious, witching beauty. 
The main dining-room is very attractive 
with low windows affording distant views 
and the nearer outlook on the flowers and 
foliage of the hotel grounds. Many of 
the rooms have out-door sleeping porches. 
The ample grounds are laid out in lawns 
ornamented with trees and flowers. One 
acre is devoted to the guests. Not only 
may they cut the flowers from it, but 
plant and raise them in individual gar- 
dens if they wish. Everything to in- 
terest and amuse the guests is close at 
hand or within easy reach. The Los An- 
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golf course and fine new club house, ad- 
joins the hotel. Electric cars pass the 
hotel and reach the heart of the business 
center of Los Angeles in twenty-five min- 
utes. 

Pasadena has four great hotels which 
have risen, one after the other, to ac- 
commodate the ever-increasing winter 
travel to Southern California. Of these 
the Raymond was the first. It occupies 
a superb position, crowning an eminence 
about a mile from the center of Pasa- 
dena. The hotel is surrounded by its own 
beautiful grounds, a park of eighty acres 
which embraces one of the finest golf 
courses in Southern California, i-olling 
lawns, shady flower-bordered paths and 
acres of blossoms to supplj' the public 
and private rooms. The commanding site 
affords scenes of wonderful beauty 
stretching away on every side, from the 
flower-embroidered surroundings of the 
hotel away up to the snow crowned heights 
of the Sierra Madre or over the smiling 
fields and orchards of the San Gabriel 
Valley. Across the entire front of the 
building stretch the wide rose wreathed 
verandas which with their rugs and cozy 
furnishings are one of the hotel's most 
delightful features. Here the guests 



gather to read, write, chat or play cards 
and here afternoon tea is served. Be- 
sides the fine golf links and tennis courts 
nuxny other out-door attractions await the 
guests of the Raymond. Beautiful drives 
and walks, mountain trails and smooth 
automobile I'oads are close at hand; car- 
riages and fine saddle horses are kept on the 
hotel grounds and burros are provided 
for the children. A well equipped garage 
furnishes accommodation for the automo- 
biles of guests. The hotel is under the 
personal management of the proprietor, 
Mr. Walter Raymond, who for a num- 
ber of years was president of tlie Ray- 
mond-Whitcomb Company. It is conducted 
on the American plan. The season is 
from the middle of December until the 
first of June. 

The Hotel Green covers with its im- 
mense fireproof buildings nearly two city 
blocks in the heart of Pasadena. The 
group consists of the east, center and 
west buildings with the steel and cement 
covered corridors that span the street. 
Together they provide nine and a quarter 
acres of floor space, sufficient room for 
the diversified entertainment of guests 
even were the hotel not surrounded by 
a city and outlying country of surpass- 




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iiig- attractions. The hotel contains, be- 
sides the usual public rooms of charming 
arrangement, more than five hundred large 
guest chambers, three hundred and fifty 
\vith attached baths, and a large roof 
garden adorned with tropical plants and 
partly enclosed with glass. The hotel is 
conspicuous in the judgment of wide 
travelers for its good food, good cheer, 
good music and painstaking entertain- 
ment; in short for all the factors of 
pleasant living. The Green plays a large 
part in the social life of the city, and is 
the scene of many brilliant entertain- 
ments. The buildings are surrounded by 
parks. A city park of ten acres adjoins 
it on the south. A new tennis court and 
lawn golf course have been added to the 
attractions of the hotel grounds. The 
privileges of the Annandale golf course 
and club house and of the Altadena club 
house and links are available for the 
guests of the Hotel Green. 

The Hotel Maryland with its adorn- 
ment of vines and flowers, its setting of 
lawns and trees and shrubbery, its pic- 
turesque cottages and bungalows sur- 
rounded by tropical gardens, is an un- 
qualified bit of paradise in the midst of a 
city which as a whole may justly lay 
claim to the name. The hotel is located 
on Colorado Street, the principal street 
of Pasadena, and being open throughout 
the year, is the scene of much of the 
city's social life, as well as a delightful 
home for tourists and winter residents. 
As Mrs. Robert J. Burdette has said : 
"Its doors have been ever ready to 
swing inward to further the interests of 
philanthropic work, centralize art, music 
or literature, or for the lighter pleasures 
of life." The stranger who is a guest 
at the Maryland finds these pleasures and 
interests open to him, and shares in the 
festivities of the charity ball, weekly 
musicals and dances, and the New Year's 
Tournament of Roses. The old English 
music room; the dining-room, seating 
nearly a thousand people and command- 
ing from its French windows a view of 
the vine-draped Maryland pergola, the 
grill room prepared for cozy, informal 
feasting, the spacious lobby and cheer- 
ful morning room with its enormous win- 
dow, framing a rarely beautiful scene, are 
some of the obvious attractions for the 
gregarious, while for those disposed to 
repose and withdrawal are quiet writing 



and card rooms and, best of all, the cot- 
tages and bungalows wherein the privacy 
of family life may be enjoyed, together 
with all the advantages of a fine hotel. 
There are twenty-six of these separate 
homes furnishing apartments of from two 
to twelve rooms. In some cases there 
are from two to four apartments in a 
cottage. Meals may be taken at the 
hotel or served in charcoal ovens directly 
from the hotel kitchen. Many of the 
bungalows are built in Spanish style en- 
closing a patio. 

In the Marylaiul bungalow land is every- 
thing to tempt the dwellers to out-of-door 
living. By a clever arrangement the 
double tennis courts are sometimes con- 
verted into a great amphitheater with the 
dining-room veranda as a stage, an enor- 
mous canvas being stretched over the 
whole. To the guests of the Maryland the 
privileges of the Annandale, San Gabriel 
Valley and Altadena Country clubs are 
available. 

The Hotel Huntington, on Oak Knoll, 
Pasadena, is operated by the same man- 
agement as the Maryland. It is a princely 
building with vine-covered pergolas and 
arched corridors; with sunny courts and 
shady lawns whereon the transplanted 
palm mingles with indigenous live oaks; 
with gardens designed by an artist, and 
with an interior in keeping with its mag- 
nificent setting on the edge of a mesa 
above the San Gabriel Valley. The Hunt- 
ington has its own golf links on which 
stands the oldest Spanish mill in Cali- 
fornia. Besides this private course, guests 
at the Huntington may have the privil- 
eges of the Annandale, the Altadena and 
the San Gabriel Country clubs, 

Pasadena and its surroundings offer a 
thousand delights for the tourist or win- 
ter resident, scenery unsurpassed, untold 
miles of the finest motoring roads, beaches 
and mountains and the city pleasures of 
Los Angeles within easy reach of the 
hotels. These large hotels make up thea- 
ter parties for their guests and conduct 
excursions to all points of interest. The 
Pasadena horse show, the polo games and 
the beautiful New Year's tournament of 
roses are further winter attractions. 

The Alpine Tavern is perched on a 
shelf high up on the side of Mount Lowe 
at the end of the Mount Lowe electric 
railway. It is surrounded by beautiful 
trees, p'ne rnd live oak, wherein birds 



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and squirrels make merry, all so tame 
that they will almost eat out of one's 
hand. The Tavern is supplied with every 
convenience and the cuisine is excellent. 
The spacious lobby with its big stone 
fireplace seems to welcome all comei's. 
From the Tavern the trip to the top of 
Mount Lowe may be continued, if de- 
sired, on burros or horseback. The place 
is delightful for a stay of a few hours 
or for weeks of quiet rest above the 
clouds and strife of the city — literally 
above the clouds, for sometimes the waves 
and billows of fog may be seen tossing 
below, while about the Tavern and above 
is sunshine and peace. 

On the sands of Long Beach, facing 
the blue Pacific, only thirty-five minutes' 
car-ride from Los Angeles, stands the 
beautiful Hotel Virginia, one of the fi- 
nest beach resort hotels in the world. It 
is built of reinforced concrete in the form 
of the letter H, every one of its two 
hundred and fifty rooms having an out- 
side exposure. The north front overlooks 
a broad avenue of palms with views of 
the mountains in the distance. A stay 
at this charming hotel gives the traveler 
a chance to become acquainted with the 
sea in all its moods. The large concrete 




World-famous Arrowhead Mountain 

tennis courts southeast of the hotel af- 
ford from the spectator's seats another 
splendid view of the ocean. The con- 
crete walks and broad steps leading from 
the hotel down to the sands are draped 
wdth ivy and bordered with flowers. The 
Virginia Country Club is only fifteen min- 
utes' ride from the hotel and offei'S 
various pleasures for the guests of the 
hotel, golf, tennis and trap shooting, also 
musicals and social affairs. Bathing, fish- 
ing and boating are the especial delights 
of the Virginia. From the long pier 




STRATFORD INN, DEL MAR 



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near by many fish are taken with rod 
and reel. This may be varied by trolling 
from a launch for large fish in the open 
sea. Catalina Island is only two hours 
away and here is sport for the most ex- 
pert fishermen. The Hotel Virginia is 
lieadquarters for the Sunset Yacht Club 
and from the verandas a fine view of the 
racing may be had on regatta days. A 
driveway extends for miles south along 
the bluff over the ocean. The beach also 
affords a fine speedway. Horseback riders 
delight in a canter along its hard sands. 

The Hotel Stowell, located on Spring 
Street just south of Fourth in Los An- 
geles, is in all truth "one block from 
everywhere, ' ' being that distance from 
the shopping, wholesale and financial dis- 
tricts. Located midway between the two 
Interurban Stations, all depot cars pass- 
ing the door, places it in the most con- 
venient spot for visitors. The entrance 
and foyer are finished in Old English tile 
effects, and this, condoled with the artistic 
decorations, at once impress the visitor, 
preparing him for the surprises which 
await. The house contains 265 rooms 
with bath, each furnished in a most com- 
fortable manner, and all so arranged as 
to provide abundance of air and sunshine. 
A clerk is stationed on each floor to per- 
form all legitimate service required. Upon 
the mezzanine and ground floors will be 
found every requisite for the traveler; 
while the rates are very reasonable. 

The Arrowhead Hot Springs Hotel is a 
health resort, but also a luxurious hotel 
where the healthy tourist may enjoy him- 
self, availing himself or not as he chooses 
of the steam baths, mud baths and min- 
eral water which are useful in many dis- 
orders. The Avaters are said to possess 
the same curative value as those of Carls- 
bad. The hotel is beautifully situated 
facing the San Bernardino Valley, under 
the great arrowhead half way up Arrow- 
head Mountain, and the views from its 
windows and veranda are superb. Within 
a short distance from the hotel on one 
side are boiling springs and steam caves; 
on the other side the springs and stream 
are icy cold. Connected with the hotel 
is a well equipped stable, where burros 
and saddle horses can be obtained for 
the mountain rides. Safe trails lead to 
wild canyons or to vantage points for 
particularly impressive views. There are 
many beautiful walks to be taken and 
fine roads for automobiles. The hotel is 
only thirty minutes distant by electric 



car Ironi the inisy little city of San 
Bernardino. 

Stratford Inn is an attractive and de- 
light I uily situated hotel, twenty miles north 
of San Diego, on the Santa Fe railroad, and 
on the Coast Road, a concreted liiglivvay 
trom Los Angeles to San Uiego. It stands 
on a hill high above the sea, commanding 
a glorious view of the distant mountains, 
and an overpowering sweep of the Pacific 
and of the surf-washed beach at its feet. 
The wide linn stretch of sand is delightful 
lor bathing, fishing, horseback riding or 
niotoriiig. dust below tiie hotel, nearer the 
beach, stands the batli house and plunge, 
with nearly a million gallons of I'unning 
tepid salt water, and decorated with baskets 
of tropical flowers and growing plants 
hanging from the high ceilings. A ten- 
hundred-foot pleasure pier extends from the 
bluff near the bath house. (lolf, tennis, 
deep-sea and pier fishing are other forms of 
amusement readily accessible. Cood duck, 
((uail and rabbit hunting is found nearby. 
There are many picturescpie places in the 
vicinity to be visited : the Cave of the 
Winds, the Witches' Cauldron, the Grand 
Canyon, Wave Crest, the Point of Pines; 
and this spot has a romantic interest as 
well as having been the scene of Bayard 
Taylor's classic poem "Paso del Mar." 
The famous "Torrey Pine," which is ab- 
solutely unknown on the face of the earth 
except at Del Mar, is a remnant of pre- 
historic ages. 

San Diego is well prepared to provide 
not only comfortably but luxuriously for 
the throng of exposition visitors in 1916. 

The IT. S. Grant Hotel is located in the 
heart of San Diego, on a main business 
street, opposite the pretty Plaza Park, 
with its handsome fountain and fine palms. 
The hotel is of fireproof construction, a 
beautiful specimen of concrete architec- 
ture, consisting of two wings joining a 
central building at right angles. A unique 
feature which delights all guests is the 
palm garden which fills the space between 
the two wings above the imposing en- 
trance. Second floor rooms open with 
French windows on this beautiful spot. 
A fountain plays in the center, surrounded 
by aquatic plants. Palms and ferns and 
the vine-draped pergola which covers it 
make it appear like a beautiful garden. 
All the I'ooms are sunny, with outside 
exposure. The Bivouac Grill is a unique 
room, with military decorations to honor 
the great name which the hotel beai*s. 
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THE XLU AULLIOX-DOLLAK HOTEL ROSSLVX, LUS ANGELES 



the great nations are all in keeping with 
this idea. Both grill and dining-room 
bear a well-deserved reputation for the 
excellence and cosmopolitan variety of their 
food. 

Tourists will find at the Hotel Sandford, 
Fifth and A streets, San Diego, perfectly 
delightful sunny rooms, furnished regard- 
less of cost in a substantial and comfortable 
manner. The manager, Mr. F. S. Sand- 
ford, having an international reputation 
for old-world courtesy and years of experi- 
ence managing the highest-class hotels of 
the world, conceived the idea of a hotel 
with reasonable rates combined with the 
perfect service and surroundings of the 
higher class hotels, imparting an atmos- 
phere that makes it especially desirous for 
ladies. The hotel is just sufficiently out- 
side the zone of eternal bustle to be prac- 
tically semi-private, and yet is within two 



minutes' walk of the most important build- 
ings of the city and on the main car line 
to the exposition grounds. 

The San Diego is a new million dollar, 
reinforced concrete building, fireproof, 
thoroughly modern and conveniently lo- 
cated for business or pleasure. All car 
lines pass its doors and it is only a short 
distance from the postoffice, custom house, 
all the i^rominent stores, the banks and 
the new Spreckels Theater Building. It 
is on the European plan. 

The Hotel del Coronado is in a class by 
itself. Its location on a narrow strip of 
land between the ocean and the bay would 
lend distinction to any building, but when 
charm of situation is enhanced by the 
great wide stretching structure surrounded 
by a park and enclosing a patio filled 
with trees and flowers and singing birds, 



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the result is a hotel offering unusual at- 
tractions. On one side the surf washes 
the sands only a few feet from the hotel 
windows; on the other the smooth lawns, 
brilliant flowers and noble trees present 
an entirely different scene, while within 
the quiet patio one seems miles away from 
all that can vex or annoy. Within the 
hotel is every convenience and luxury 
known to modern hotel life with addi- 
tional comforts rarely found. The home 
feature is emphasized everywhere. Many 
of the rooms and suites have private 
piazzas which are furnished as living- 
rooms or sleeping porches as desired. 

An open air school is open all the yeai*, 
giving individual instruction to children of 
any gi'ade or from any school, so that they 
may keep up with the classes they have 
left at home. The Montessori method is 
used for young children. A well equipped 
playground is located on the beach. 

Outdoor life is so emphasized that many 
of the attractive indoor rooms seem 



scarcely needed, but they are all there, 
lobby, card rooms, reading rooms, writ- 
ing rooms, billiard and ball rooms, sun 
parlors and casino. Verandas and bal- 
conies are everywhere and from them and 
from all the windows are beautiful views 
of the ocean, or of San Diego harbor, 
the city and mountains in the distance. 
The grounds of the hotel are thirty-five 
acres in extent. The hotel itself covers 
four and a half acres. Surf bathing may 
be enjoyed nearby. Yachting, canoeing, 
rowing, motor boating and fishing are 
favorite pastimes of many. The Coro- 
nado Country Club T>rovides golf links, 
tennis courts and polo grounds for others. 
There are splendid roads for riding and 
driving, and no end of interesting ex- 
cursions to be taken. The hotel manage- 
ment arranges weekly motor picnics to 
the Cuyamaca mountains or beach. The 
hotel is conducted on the American plan 
with cuisine and service of the highest 
excellence. 




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The Hotel Potter at Santa Barbara 
crowns a knoll formerly known as Bur- 
ton Mound, on which for unknown years 
has gushed forth a sulphur spring. The 
water still bubbles up in a marble basin 
in the lobby of the hotel. Beautiful 
park-like grounds of wide extent surround 
the building nd slope down to ihe Palm 
Boulevard which borders the sea. A more 
charming setting can scarcely be imagined, 
acres of velvet lawns, rose gardens wuth 
thousands of bushes which bloom nearly 
the whole year through, hundreds of other 
plants and shrubs, at least a mile of 
asphalt walks and driveways bordered by 
blazing scarlet geraniums and beyond it 
all the blue Pacific. Every window of 
the hotel frames a picture. The comfort- 
able chairs of the wide veranda invite 
one to rest and enjoy the sight. Within 
the hoiTse is every comfort which a large, 
luxurious hotel can provide. The table 
is largely supplied with products of the 
Potter farm, thus insuring pure milk, 
cream and butter, and a prime quality 
in eggs, poultry, squabs and vegetables. 
Even a large portion of the meats are 
supplied by the farm. The hotel is op- 
erated on the American plan. Within 
the groiands are asphalt tennis courts, 
garage and livery stables where nearly 
two hundred horses are kept for riding 
and driving. In one part of the grounds 
is a menagerie and a deer park. The 
Potter Counti'y Club is an adjunct of the 
Hotel Potter and offers every convenience 
of a first-class club as well as facilities 
for out-door sports, including polo and 
golf. It occupies about one hundred and 
fifty acres of the celebrated Hope ranch. 
The club house is on a knoll overlooking 
a pretty fresh water lake. From the 
veranda almost the whole of the club 
grounds can be seen. Breakfasts, lunch- 
eons and teas are served either in the 
pretty grill room or on the verandas 
looking out on the wooded hills. The 
club grill is operated in conjunction with 
the hotel dining-room. Spanish and South- 
ern dishes are a specialty. 

There are scores of delightful rides and 
drives in the vicinity of Santa Barbai'a. 
The surrounding scenery is Avonderfully 
beautiful, and the equable climate en- 
ables one to enjoy out-door life to the 
utmost. All the delights the sea can 
offer are to be enjoyed here. Annual 
regattas bring representatives from every 
important club on the coast and the Hotel 



Potter is the headquartei's of social ac- 
tivities. The Santa Barbara channel af- 
fords fine deep sea fishing. The Hotel 
Potter is only a step from the Southern 
Pacific station and stop-over privileges 
are granted on all through coast line 
tickets. 

Another charming hotel of Santa Bar- 
bara is the New Arlington, a reinforced 
concrete, fireproof hotel, built on the site 
of the old Arlington which in the early 
seventies was the most important resort 
hotel in California. It stands in five 
acres of lawn embellished by flowers and 
handsome trees, many of them palms of 
large growth. Neither brains nor money 
has been spared to make a safe, substan- 
tial hotel fitted with every luxury. The 
architect has borrowed freely from the 
missions in his design, making an adap- 
tion of some of their best features. The 
terraced towers strongly suggest those of 
the Santa Barbara Mission. 

Among all the charming hotels of 
Southern California the Glenwood Mission 
Inn at Riverside stands out by itself. It 
is the hotel that is different. It was built 
con amore and is carried on in the same 
spirit. The architecture is an adapta- 
tion and mingling of the best from all 
the missions, the arches, the corridors, the 
patio, the campanile and the tiled floors 
and roof. It is typically Californian, 
yet unlike any other hotel in California 
or elsewhere, either in its material as- 
pect or in the atmosphere which per- 
vades it. It breathes peace and quietness 
upon all w'ho enter the shady courtyard 
and cross its threshold. Over an entrance 
to one of the inner rooms is the motto 
"Ye canna be baith grand and comfort- 
able," and the atmosphere of the inn is 
a practical exemplification of this. The 
luxury of the place is in the way of care- 
ful service, delicious meals, beauty, har- 
mony and objects of interest on every 
side. For all its air of simplicity no 
hostelry was ever more carefully planned 
and built and furnished. All Europe has 
been ransacked and the results claini at- 
tention on every side, yet eveiything is 
fitting and harmonious. 

The main part of the building was 
built by the owner and proprietor, Mr. 
Frank Miller, in 1902. The cloister room 
was added in 1910. The building, occupy- 
ing a full city block, is of brick and con- 
crete, enclosing on three sides a patio 
filled with flowers, shrubs and vines. It 



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encloses within its walls the original 
adobe Glenwood built by Mr. Miller and 
his father in 1875. This now serves as 
the tea room. Walking around the out- 
side of the inn you will see that the wall 
on the east or Orange Avenue side is a 
reproduction of the butti'essed side wall 
of San Gabriel Mission. On the north 
or Sixth Street side the facliada of Santa 
Barbara has been the motif. On the cor- 
ner of Sixth and Orange streets is a re- 
plica of the dome of the Carmel Mission. 
A colonade of arches which San Fernando 
and Capistrano missions have suggested 
faces the Seventh Street side, and in the 
courtyard is the campanile patterned from 
San Gabriel. Within the beamed ceiling 
of the cloister music room is copied from 
that of San Miguel Mission and the bal- 
cony rail is a copy of the altar rail of 
the same church. 

Mr. Miller's collection of bells is world 
famous, the most valuable in the United 
States. They are hung in the Garden of 
the Bells, a roof garden prepared for 
them. They number nearly three hundred, 
ranging from harness bells to church bells, 
of all ages and from all lands. The study 
of their forms, the materials of which 
they are made, their histories and the 
quaint legends many of them bear would 
furnish hours of interest. 

Mr. Miller's collection of crosses is the 
largest in the world. The smaller ones 
are in a cabinet in the cloister music 
room. 

It would take too long to enumerate all 
the beauty and interest contained within 
these walls. The rooms themselves are 
worthy of study, the Carmel room, the St. 
Cecelia room, the Japanese landing, the 



Colonial landing, the cloister walk, the 
cloister music room and the Refecterio 
with its groined arches, stained glass win- 
dows picturing scenes, industries and rec- 
reations connected with the life of the 
missions, and a bas-relief by Richard 
Calder representing the growth of wor- 
sliip from the fire worshippers down to 
Christian times. If one room of this won- 
derful inn can stand out above all the 
other fascinating ones it is the cloister 
room. This is of noble proportions, with 
a great organ at one end. There is music 
here daily at one, five and eight o'clock. 
It is an experience never to be forgotten 
to sit in the choir stalls, fashioned after 
those of W^estminster Abbey, and listen 
to the moving tones of organ and harp, 
now in some masterpiece, again in simple, 
familiar melodies, while the eye lingers 
on each beautiful object that goes to 
produce this mellow old-world effect — the 
paintmgs; the armor; the stained glass 
windows; the banners brought from an- 
cient buildings in the old world hanging 
over the balconies; the panels from an 
old Spanish church of the year 1400, the 
lamps, the carved monastery table over 
three hundred years old — all these and 
more. During the winter and spring months 
a song service is held here every Sunday 
night. National hymns of different coun- 
tries, ballads, college songs, familiar patri- 
otic airs and the standard old hymns are 
sung. The bells of the campanile chime 
the hours and whatever the special in- 
terest of the moment, it is forgotten Avhile 
the sweet tones of "Mv Old Kentucky 
Home," ''The Rosary,'"' ''Abide With 
Me," or some other old-time favorite falls 
upon the ear. 




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139 



INDEX— GENERAL 



A PAGE 

Alligator Farm 19 

American Tours 91, 92 

Amusements 19 

Angeleno Heights 20 

Angel 's Flight 21 

Animal Farm 21 

Aquaria 21 

Aqueduct 21 

Area of Los Angeles 23 

Armory 23 

Arroyo Seco 23 

Art Commission 23 

Associated Charities 23 

Auditoriums 23 

Automobiles, Legal Rates of 23 

Aviation Fields 25 



Balloon Route Trip 73 

Banks of Los Angeles 25 

Beaches 25 

Baseball 19 

Bathing and Swimming 19 

Bible Institute 25 

Bimini Hot Springs 27 

Boulevards and Auto Trips 27, 29 

Boyle Heights 30 



Cafes 

Coaching 

Central Square 

Cahuanga Pass and Valley 



30 

30 
30 



Chamber of Commerce 30, 31 

Chamber of Mines and Oils 31 

Chinatown 31 

Churches 31,33 

Church Federation 33 

City Hall 33 

Civic Center 33, 35 

Climate 35 

Clubs, Societies, etc 35, 38 

Coastwise Steamship Lines 38 

Colegrove 38 

Colleges and Schools 38, 41 

Coronel Collection 41 

Country Clubs 41 

Court House 41 

Custom Office 41 



Eastlake Park 41 

Echo Park 43 

El Camino Real 43 

Elysian Park 43, 44 

Exposition Park 44 



Federal Building 44 

Federation of Churches 44 

Federation of State Societies 44 

Fiestas 44 

Fishing 19 

Fort Hill 45 



G 



Gardena .... 
Garvanza . . . 

Golf 

Griffith Park 



45 
45 
19 
45 



H 



Hacks, Legal Rates of 45 

Hall of Records 45 

Harbor 45 

Highland Park 45 

Hollenbeck Park 45 

Hollywood 45, 47 

Homes for the Aged 47 

Hospitals 47 

Hotels 47,48 

Hunting 19 



Information Bureaus . 
Introductorv to Guide 



48 
3 



Kite-Shaped Trip 77, 79 



Laurel Canyon 79, 80 

Latitude and Longitude 48 

Learned Societies 49 

Lil)raries 49, 51 

Lodges 51 

Lookout Mountain 51 

Los Angeles Name 51, 53 

Los Angeles Railroad 53 

Los Angeles, Historical Sketch of . . . 17 



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Continued 



M PAGE 

Manufacturing 53 

Mary Andrews Clark IMeniorial Home.. 53 

Mines and Mining 53 

Mission Church 53 

Mission Play 53, 54 

Motoring 19 

Mountains 54, 55 

Museums 55, 57 

Musical Los Angeles 57 

Mount Lowe Trip 80, 82 

Mount Wilson Trip 83 

N 

Notable Hotels 129 



Old Mission Trolley Trip 83, 88 

Oil Wells 57 

Old Mission Church 57 

Ostrich Farms 57, 59 

Orange Belt Excursion 88, 91 



PAGE 

Kailroad Ticket Offices 62 

Kosidential Section 62 

Restaurants 63, 65 

Retail District 65 

Rancho La Brea 60 



San Diego (see San Diego Section). 105-127 

San Fernando Valley Trip 93, 97 

Santa Catalina Islands 97, 98 

Santa Fe Railroad 66 

Salt Lake Railroad 66 

San Pedro 65 

Sonoratown 65 

South Park 67 

Southern Pacific 67 

Southwest Museum 67 

Special Pleasure Trips 71 

Steamship Lines 67 

Sunset Park 67 

Sycamore Grove 67 



Pacific Electric Railway 59 

Panama-California International Ex- 
position (see Exposition Section). 5,15 

Parks 19, 59 

Periodicals 59, 60 

Playgrounds 60, 62 

Plaza 62 

Plaza Church 62 

Point Firmin 62 

Polo 20,62 

Population 62 

Post Office 62 

Prospect Park 62 



B 



Railroads 

Railroad Stations 



62 
62 



Taxicabs 67 

Theatres 20,67 

Title Page 1 

Triangle Trolley Trip 101-103 



U 



TJniversitv Park 



67 



Vallevs 67,69 



W 



Westlake Park 
AVilmington . . . 



Yachting: 



69 
69 



20 



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PAGE 

Above the Clouds 83 

All-the-Year-Kound Sport 20 

Amusement Pier, Venice 72 

And Behold a New Light 22 

A Street in Santa Ana 101 

Arrowhead Mountain 134 

Banks 24 

Balboa Island 103 

Beach at Oceanside Ill 

Bimini Hot Springs 27 

Busch Gardens 87 

Cafe Bristol, Interior View 63 

California State Building 14 

Cawston Ostrich Farm 88 

Central Square 43 

Celery Industry 101 

Cave, Ocean Park 122 

Central Park 34 

City and County Eoads 26 

Clune 's Auditorium 64 

Court House and Hall of Justice 42 

Curtis School of Aviation 114 

City Homes 32 

Davidson, G. A 7 

Domestic Arts Building 10 

Exhibit Hall, Chamber of Commerce. . 28 

Exposition Park 50 

Famous Marble Lobby 

Hotel Alexandria 48 

First Pepper Tree 109 

From the Mountains to the Sea 84 

Fountain, San Fernando Mission 95 

Hawaii at the Exposition 12 

Home Economy Building 13 

Hotel del Coronado 137 

Hotel Green 132 

Hollywood Hotel 131 

Home of the Mission Play 54 

Hotel Virginia *. 136 

Largest Outdoor Organ in the World. . 9 

La Jolla Beach 115 

Las Vegas Grade 116 

Looking East Along El Prado 5 

Lobby, Hotel Angelus 130 

Long Beach 101 

Long Beach Sanitarium 103 

Los Angeles Harbor 17, 99 

Little, A. E. & Co. (interior view)... 44 
Looking across Garden Southern 

California Counties' Building 8 



PAGE 

Map of Pacific Electric Eailway 

System 94 

Missions of Southern California 82 

Mission San Gabriel 85 

Mme. Schumann-Heinke 's Home 125 

Mountain Spring Eoad 116 

Museum of History, Exposition Park. 60 

Mount Lowe Incline Eailway 81 

National Soldiers' Home 73 

New Million Dollar Hotel Eossyln... 136 

Ocean Park Bath House 73 

One of the Bestful Balconies 9 

One of the Palaces 8 

One of the Products of Southern Cali- 
fornia 58 

One Day 's Sport 123 

On the Trail 80 

Orange Groves, Smiley Heights 77 

Our Parks 66 

Palace Liberal Arts, P. C. L E 15 

Panorama along El Prado 12 

Polytechnic High School 39 

Post Office 56 

Eamona 's Marriage Place 126 

Eesidence, J. D. Spreckels 119 

Eiverside Mission Inn 79 

Sailing on San Diego Bay 118 

San Joaquin Valley Building 11 

Scenes at Venice 76 

Schools of San Diego 120 

Santa Catalina Islands 99 

Shipping, Harbor of the Sun 106 

Spanish Troubadours 13 

Stratford Inn 134 

Street Scene 52 

Southern California Counties Building 7 

Sunset, Point Loma 122 

The Booterj^ (interior view) 46 

The Canals at Venice 75 

The Harbor of the Sun 106, 112 

The City of Homes 32 

The ' ' Paseo ' ' at Eedondo 75 

The Sierras 68 

Tower of Science and Education 

Building 11 

Tent City 139 

Trout Fishing 21 

Wading Pool, Echo Park 61 

Warner's Springs 124 

Wonderland, Ocean Park 118 

Young Men's Christian Association.. 38 



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Alvarailo Hotel 8(5 

Alpine Tavern 131} 

Appleton Hotel 108 

American Tours 90 

Anjielus Hotel 129 

Arlington Hotel 138 

Arrowhead Hot Springs 135 

Balboa Hotel 102 

Beverly Hills Hotel 130 

Bimini Hot Springs 110 

Burlington Apartments 100 

Cafe Bristol 2 

Carnegie Apartments 104 

Clune "s Auditorium Theatre 64 

Cumnock School 78 

Cordova Hotel 100 

Dresden Apartments 86 

Parish, O. E. & Co 96 

Golden West Hotel Third Cover 

Glenwood Mission Inn 138, 139 

Greene, A. & Sons Inside Front Cover 

Hollywood Military Academy 96 

Hotel Alexandria 129 

Hotel Balboa 102 

Hotel del Coronado 136, 137 

Hotel Green 131 

Hotel Hollywood 130 

Hotels of Los Angeles 47, 48 

Hotel Maryland 133 

Hotel Potter 138 

Hotel Eaymond 131 

Hotel Sandford 110, 136 

Hotel San Diego 136 

Hotel Sherwood 102 

Hotel Stowell 135 

Hotel St. James 108 

Hotel Stillwell 96 

Hotel Virginia 134 

Hotel Van Nuys 129 

Hotel Westmoore 102 

New Southern Hotel 104 

Nordlinger, S. & Sons 4 

Pleasant View Apartments 86 

Push Apartments 86 

Scarborough Apartments 96 

Selwyn Apartments 102 

Stratford Inn 128, 135 

The Bootery 144 

U. S. Grant Hotel 135 

Ville de Paris 78 

Venice Chamber of Commerce 74 

Walton & Company 70 

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The man or woman who travels occasionally — or any 
traveler — adds comfort and pleasure to the journey 
by selecting the Golden West Hotel when visiting 
San Francisco. 

Situated at the corner of Powell and Ellis streets, in 
the heart of the downtown district, it offers a head- 
quarters from which is easily reached the theatre 
and shopping district. All of the principal theatres 
and stores are but one or two blocks from this hotel. 

RATES 

One person without bath . . . $1.00 up 

Two persons without bath ... 1.50 up 

One person with bath 1.50 up 

Two persons with bath .... 2.00 up 

The Golden West provides a cheerful, genial atmos- 
phere not found in many hotels, and a courteous, 
interested service from employees which every 
traveler is quick to appreciate. 

Our free bus meets all incoming trains and steamers. 
Make all reservations direct. Simply drop us a card 
stating hour of arrival and reservation desired — we 
will do the rest. 



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Skirting majestic Mount Shasta, 
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